ON-DEMAND TALK

Demeter, Persephone, and the Alien(s) Cultural Body

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Dennis Patrick Slattery
TOPIC
Archetypes
Format
audio talk
DURATION
40 min

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Technology carries its own mythology. This reality especially comes through when a film retells an ancient mythic story like the abduction of the virginal Persephone by the god Hades as her mother Demeter mourns her loss.

In this audio lecture, Dennis Patrick Slattery explores a film version of this myth with an eye to technology’s power to wed ancient stories with a modern medium. The reader can use this essay to explore a myriad of films today that rest on a mythic substratum.

Talk Description

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Aliens was the middle film of a quaternity: Alien (1979), Aliens (1986 ), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). 

This lecture focuses on the 1986 version in order to illustrate how an ancient myth finds its way into a modern sci-fi film. It explores sleep and dream, both underworld activities, as well as confronting excess in the form of the monstrous alien creatures themselves. It considers the alien within human nature, which may reveal itself through the medium of the technology itself. 

Within the myth, Demeter and Persephone may certainly be at the heart of both feminine consciousness and power. The film poignantly retrieves the myth of the mother and daughter as it bridges the divide between surface and depth, consciousness and unconsciousness.

This TALK is ideal if you want to:

  • Learn the outlines of the ancient myth of Demeter and Persephone and its migration into a contemporary film.
  • Understand how a contemporary film does not just copy the old myth. It reformats it and extends its meaning forward.
  • Recognize the place of the underworld in the psyche of each of us.

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
1 audio recording
Accurate Closed Captions
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Dennis Patrick Slattery

Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 54 years, the last 27 of which have been in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

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