ON-DEMAND COURSE

Moby Dick

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Dennis Patrick Slattery
TOPIC
Archetypes
Format
9 class course
DURATION
13.5 Hrs

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Fathoming the Deep Self Through Others

The epic novel Moby Dick will be the topic of exploration in this journey with author and magnificent teacher of mythology Dennis Patrick Slattery. 

Slattery will lead this ‘psychological book club’: a series of 9 webinar classes. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is more than just a story about a white whale. It is an adventure, a philosophical and mythical quest. In this bookclub we are invited to explore the human spirit in search of meaning as well as our own personal myths.

Course Description

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Moby Dick is Herman Melville’s epic white whale tale that relates the story of Ishmael, an isolato. He discovers on board the Pequod his own identity and his membership in the world community. But the whales themselves are also the prime movers in this saga, which evokes in us readers the fragile nature of our earthly world and the need not to exhaust it but to nurture it. And, at the heart of the story is one white whale that weaves and binds the story into a cohesive whole.

Herman Melville’s epic fiction reveals to all of us what a mythless life can look and feel like. How it can leave one feeling hollow, empty, and yes, even suicidal.

Pursuing the contours of one’s personal myth is a task that all of us should undertake to enjoy a life of meaning and purpose.

Each of us needs a myth to live by. It includes both personal and collective values, assumptions, opinions and beliefs. Myths are organizing principles that offer our lives coherence, purpose and meaning. Without a living, organic myth, which is always subject to editing and renewal, our lives would contain little or no meaning.

In this psychological book club, Dennis Patrick Slattery explores the human spirit in search of meaning. In addition he will help us recognize the contours and particulars of our own myth and the meaning it affords our life.

Required reading
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick (Fisher King Press, 2015).

Reading the entire epic is not required. Although if you would like to, the Norton Third Edition of Moby-Dick is a good one to choose.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Understand why C. G. Jung talked about Moby Dick, as ‘visionary fiction’.
  • Recognize the contours and particulars of your own myth and the meaning it affords your life.
  • Explore a rich, nuanced epic of the human spirit in search of a life of extended meaning and coherence.
  • See more and to see more deeply of what your soul desires.

Course overview

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.
9 videos & 9 audio recordings
Handout
Auto-generated/ Accurate subtitles
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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