Love, alterity and gender relations : re-thinking the myth of eros and psyche

• Main Author: Yong, Ade Wernmei
• Other Authors: D. Byrne
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Brill 2021
• Subjects: Humanities::Language; Eros and Psyche; Alterity; Philosophy in the Feminine
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152457
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Central to the myth of Eros and Psyche is the theme of love and knowledge. Jungian psychologist and philosopher Erich Neumann’s reading of the myth centres on the light-bringing as the point of Psyche’s death and rebirth: death of her dependence, ignorance and passivity, and rebirth into womanly ini...