As well as Shakespeare, the workshop will look at the rise of the feminine in contemporary culture via the goddesses inhabiting detective or “mystery” fiction by women. V.I. Warshawski as Artemis, Goldy Schultz as Hestia and Sharon McCone as Athena; goddesses return to the modern psyche via literature and media texts. Using work from her recent book on this topic, The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women’s Detective Fiction (Spring 2015), Susan will explore how contemporary literature embraces and interacts with the Shakespearean American psyche. In the context of the Dionysian extremes of recent US politics, looking at the return of the repressed feminine is vital for America’s neighbours and friends!
The workshop will include experiential investigation of Shakespeare and archetypes in literature as a whole as an opportunity to explore personal transferences to characters, plays, stories and myths. It will also look in detail at certain plays as historical, political and soul-full archetypes in modern Canada, England and the United States. This includes considering the staggering popularity of Richard III and Hamlet in the eighteenth century, The Tempest as a play about the early colonists, Much Ado About Nothing and PTSD and A Midsummer Night’s Dream as prescient (in a Jungian way) of climate change. Come and join in to discover what is emerging in you, and your world, through to potent and magical medium of Goddess Detectives and Shakespeare and Archetypes!
About the Presenter
Susan Rowland (Ph.D.) is Chair of MA Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California and formerly Professor of English and Jungian Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is author of a number of books on literary theory, gender and Jung including Jung as a Writer (2005); Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002); C. G. Jung in the Humanities (2010) and The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung (2012). She also researches detective fiction with a book, From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (2001) and NEW in 2015, The Sleuth and the Goddess: Hestia, Artemis, Athena and Aphrodite in Women’s Detective Fiction. Forthcoming in 2016 is a new book called Remembering Dionysus: Revisioning Psychology and Literature in C.G. Jung and James Hillman. In addition she teaches an online interactive public program on Shakespeare called “Shakespeare in Depth.”