Open Access Journal: Mythological Studies

[First posted in AWOL 10 March 2013, updated 28 April 2024]

Welcome to the Mythological Studies Journal featuring writings by students enrolled in the MA/PhD Mythological Studies Program with a specialization in Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute. The essays reflect the interdisciplinary approach of this program, which integrates perspectives on myth from religious studies, literature, and depth psychology as a means of elucidating issues and motifs that shape the cultural dynamics, diverse worldviews, and complexities of psychological life in the contemporary world.

Many thanks are due to all of the peer-reviewers and authors and our faculty advisor, Dr. Emily Lord-Kambitsch, for their contributions to the most recent volume of essays.

Sincerely,
The Mythological Studies Journal Editorial Team

Volume XI (2023)

2023 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume X (2022)

2022 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume IX (2021)

2021 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume VIII (2020)

2020 Mythological Studies Journal
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Volume VII (2019)

2019 Mythological Studies Journal

Volume VI (2018)

2018 Mythological Studies Journal

Volume V (2014)

Good Man Down: The Myth of Masculine Violence in American Society by David S. McCabe
Violence and Veneration: Tapping a sadomasochistic vein in the American psyche by Angelina Avedano
Soul-Making and the Colorado Shooting: James Holmes as the Joker, Trickster, Savior by Michael Bogar
Demeter and Persephone as Temenos: A Perspective of Understanding Postpartum Depression by Stephanie Zajchowski
Shading in a Violent Shadow: A Hero’s Confrontation with the American Shadow in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Leontine Armstrong

Volume IV (2013)

Cheap Tattered Gloves: Getting a Grip in the Modern World by Timothy Hall
The Ecopsychology of Milk by Odette Springer
The (Mal) Creation of Food the Monsanto Way: A Call to Return a Mythic Sensitivity to Food Production by Clara Oropeza
The Necessary Relativity of Secrecy by Nina Hatfield
A Transformation of Gawain: A Human Experience by Leontine Armstrong
From Republican Chaos to Imperial Cosmos: Virgil’s New Myth for Augustan Rome in the Aeneid by Matt Wheeler
“The Music of the Spheres”: Musical Theory and Alchemical Image by Margaret Mendenhall

Volume III (2012)

The Loa Mounts: Physical, Religious, Cultural, and Psychological Aspects of Possession by Jody Gentian Bower
Re-Visioning Patriarchy Through the Lens of Homer’s Odyssey by Michael Dean Bogar
The Salt That She Became: The Unnamed Wife in Genesis by Emma Tresemer
The Hermetic Christ by Rebecca Diggs
The Concubine as Mytheme of Convergence and Differentiation in Hebrew Mythology by Karin Zirk
Terminal Mercury Poisoning: The Threatened Extinction of Primordial Mind by Anita Doyle
In Techno-Eden: Fantasies of Death and Rebirth in The Fountain by Dorene Sue Koehler
Drawing Water, Drawing Breath by Odette Springer

Volume II (2011)

In a Dark Time, The Eye Begins to See: Plumbing the Subtle Depths of Alchemical Saturn by Anita Doyle
The Lyre and the Drum: Dionysus and Apollo throughout Music History by Kathleen Asbo
Get Lost! The Psychic Value of Wilderness Adventures in the Lives of Children by Aaron Duggan
Relinquishing Grief: Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes in Truly Madly Deeply by Jody Bower
Archetypal Interpretation of Sleeping Beauty: Awakening the Power of Love by Grace Hogstad
The Underworld at the End of the Maze: Re-entering Pan’s Labryinth by Emma Tresemer
Mandalas of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish: Geometric Soul-Images in Melville’s Moby-Dick by Laura Strudwick

Volume I (2010)

Epic Fathering: Homer’s Odyssey as Healer of the Puer-Senex Split and Restorer of Mythic Movement by Gustavo Beck
Woodlands, Farmlands and Homesteads: The Landscapes of Childhood and Discovery of Soul by Kathie Collins
The Whirling Subalpine Fir: An Encounter with Nature, Psyche and Myth by Darla Dench
Under-Standing: The Divine Messenger Hermes and the Character of Hermeneutics by Rebecca Diggs
Nex Ex Machina, Or Bringing It All Back Home: The Fallacy and Fantasy of Sacrificeless Warfare and Why It Will Never Work by Aaron Duggan
The Tri-Wizard Cup: Alchemy and Transformation in Harry Potter by Priscilla Hobbs
The Longissima Via by Maureen Murdock
Thinking in Narrative: Seeing Through To the Myth in Philosophy by Joe Muszynski
“Red Feels Like Red!”: The Aesthetic Body in the Sensual World by Leslie Stoupas
Infinite Space and Self-Similar Form in Alchemy and Fractal Geometry by Laura Strudwick
The Open-Mouthed Condition: Odysseus’ Transition from Warrior to Ruler by S. Asher Sund
When Shadows Meet: The Interplay of Archetypes in The Bacchae by Emma Tresemer