Description
The great American novel Moby-Dick describes symbolically the stormy spiritual voyage of Herman Melville. It is also a profound expression of Western civilization in transition
Dr. Edinger approaches Moby-Dick as a psychological document, a symbolic record of an intense inner experience which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for their meaning to emerge fully.His exploration serves three ends:
- it elucidates the psychological significance of Moby-Dick;
- it demonstrates the Jungian approach to symbolic material;
- it illustrates many of the basic therapeutic concepts of Jung’s analytical psychology
