body and myth

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- Gustavo Rol -

 

I want to advice the publication of the book of Stanley Keleman, Myth and

the body, published in august 1999, by Center Press, pp 91, $14.95.

Keleman worked with the late Joseph Campbell about relationships between

body and myth and mythology, arguments they followed in their own yearly

seminars.

Can anybody who has had the opportunity to follow those seminars contact me,

please?

 

Best regards,

 

Eldo Stellucci,M.D.

Turin - Italy

 

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Book Description

In 1973, Two pioneers in their respective fields - Stanley Keleman and

Joseph Campbell - began to hold what would be fourteen annual seminars,

ceasing only with Campbell's death, to trade their well-honed thoughts on

the subject of mythology and the body. Their talks ranged over a vast number

of subjects, but the two friends found themselves returning again and again

to ponder the meaning they found in the story that lies at the very heart of

Western thought: Parsifal and the quest for the Holy Grail. Whether your

interest lies in psychology or mythology - or both - you are sure to be

fascinated by the connecgtions forged by two original and celebrated

thinkers.

About the Author

Stanley Keleman is director of the Center for Energetic Studies in Berkeley,

California. He has been practicing and developing somatic therapy for over

thirty-five years, and is a pioneer in his study of the life of the body and

its connection to the sexual, emotional, and imaginative aspects of human

experience. Through his writings and continuing practice, Keleman has

developed a methodology and conceptual framework for the life of the body

which are to be found in his recent books, Emotional Anatomy and Embodying

Experience.

 

Joseph Campbell, educator, author , and editor, was educated at Columbia

University, University of Paris, and the University of Munich. For nearly

forty years, he taught at Sarah Lawrence College where he was a member of

the literatuture faculty. He is author of the four-volume study of world

mythologies collectively titled The Masks of God; also The Hero with a

Thousand Faces, and The Flight of the Wild Gander, and editor of The

Portable Jung and The Portable Arabian Nights. He appeared with Bill Moyers

on a television series, The Powere of Myth, which was aired following his

death in 1987. Director Georget Lucas credits The Hero with a Thousand Faces

as the template and inspiration for the Star Wars films.