Animal Guides in Life, Myth and Dreams : An Analyst's Notebook

by Russack, Neil

• ISBN13: 9780919123984
• ISBN10: 0919123988
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Inner City Books

Summary

Are you interested in animals? Do they appear in your dreams? Ever since Paleolithic people learned to draw animal forms on the walls of caves, we humans have shown a mixed reaction to the animal world. On the one hand we have worshipped animals as if they were gods, and on the other treated them as personal possessions to be loved and cared for. Neil Russack has given us a beautiful and moving narrative of his experience of animals - dogs, waterbirds, deer, whales, snakes, elephants, elk, geese, frogs, dolphins, horses and many more - teasing out their psychological meaning through the use of mythology, poetry, dreams and case material.

Author Biography

Neil Russack, M.D., is a Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco, Where he is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California. As a faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, he frequently lectures about animals and nature in the psyche

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(2)
Preface	9	(2)
Isolation and Alienation	11	(20)
Early Years with Animals, Family, Nature	11	(11)
The Napa Years and After	22	(9)
Animal Healing	31	(20)
Animal Soul	31	(1)
Animal Energy	31	(7)
Animal Guardian	38	(7)
Animal Body	45	(4)
Animal Guide	49	(2)
Through the Gate of the Snake	51	(13)
Initiation by Water	64	(40)
Octopus and Spiral	64	(9)
Waterbird	73	(4)
Geese	77	(6)
Duck, Goose and Heron	83	(10)
Frog	93	(4)
Dolphins	97	(4)
Whales	101	(3)
Initiation by Earth	104	(47)
Elephants	104	(14)
Deer and Elk	118	(12)
Boar	130	(6)
Horses	136	(15)
Initiation by Fire	151	(39)
Imagination and Transcendence	151	(2)
Fire Dragon and Unicorn	153	(10)
Death Dragon	163	(5)
The Phoenix and the 1995 Pt. Reyes Fire	168	(5)
Guerranero, Dream Animal	173	(7)
Osprey	180	(5)
Owl	185	(5)
Returning Home	190	(22)
Town, Nature, the Human World	190	(12)
Animals in My Office	202	(10)
Acknowledgments	212	(1)
Permissions	212	(2)
Bibliography	214	(4)
Index	218