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Chiron announces new release, The Hiss of Hope
The diagnosis of a chronic illness can separate a person’s timeline into two spaces: the before and the after of the onset of the disease.
For author Meredith Oenning-Hodgson it is Parkinson’s Disease. The disease has been with her for 20 years. For the first few years the relationship between her and Parkinson’s remains moderate. But the symptoms gradually become worse. And the battle begins. Her psychoanalytic practice has to close. Patients are referred to colleagues. Her days and nights consist of dualistic power battles, of feelings of resignation, or of enduring the hours when her body freezes and she becomes a statue, at the mercy of Parkinson’s Disease.
Even though The Hiss of Hope is about living with a chronic disease, the book does not dwell on a life of suffering and desperation, but rather, it also depicts the adventure leading to places, to encounters and to depths of experience that would not have been possible without first having been ambushed by Parkinson’s.
“Oenning- Hodgson’s book moves me to tears as I find courage and despair side by side, powerless allied with fierce independence, and through it all, both a model and a summons to ask ourselves, as Jung asked, ‘what supports us when nothing supports us?’ What sustains a sense of autonomy, dignity, and purpose when the old life has fallen away? The reader will share a journey with a woman of insight and courage, and be reminded of what we all have to draw upon when our appointment with life comes due.” James Hollis, Ph.D., author and Jungian Analyst in practice in Washington, D.C.
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Meredith Oenning-Hodgson, originally from Colorado, is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst. During 32 years living in Germany she developed a deep affinity for the country’s culture and literature, especially Goethe. Her first Master’s degree was from the University of Oregon, her second from the University of Frankfurt. She earned her diploma in Analytical Psychology from the Jung Institute, where she later became a training analyst and teacher.
After 15 years working in private practice in Frankfurt, she moved to Edmonton, Canada, where she established a Jung Forum, held weekly discussion groups, and taught at the University of Alberta. She lectured at various Canadian centers. While maintaining a full private practice, she published articles in “Psychological Perspectives” and wrote a chapter for the book Mother Life.
By 2008 symptoms of Parkinson’s disease violently disrupted her life. The Hiss of Hope tells of an amazing voyage to an intimate autonomy, to a radically different structural pattern of relating, and to a second birth.
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Table of Contents
-Foreword, Jacqueline West 11
-Introduction 25
-Part One 27
-The parts 28
-Structures and spaces 29
-The hiss of hope 30
-Intimacy and autonomy 31
-Parkinson’s and me 34
-The hidden depth of structure 36
-The alchemical nature of structure 39
-Patterns 40
-Our voyage 41
-Intimate autonomy’s anatomy 43
-The quality of nothingness 45
-Secrets of nothingness 47
-Creativity 49
-The play space 51
-The house and me 53
-Structures: Words, exoskeletons, scaffolds, and repetition compulsions 55
-The word 56
-Exoskeletons and the dragonfly 59
-The house scaffold 60
-Repetition compulsions 61
-Intimate autonomy 62
-Hope, no-hope, and their hiss 64
-Part Two 67
-Summaries 67
-Now 67
-Prologue 69
-The molts (Latin: mutare, “to change”) 70
-Molt 16: Intimate autonomy’s anatomy 73
-Molt 15: “Formation, Transformation,/The Eternal Mind’s Eternal Animation” 74
-Molt 14: Anna 75
-Molt 13: Alchemical moments and clinical vignettes of the voyage into an intimate autonomy 75 -Molt 12: The dynamic dialectic of play—Galatea 77
-Molt 11: The transmutation of the ice mirror 78
-Molt 10: The dis-union 78
-Molt 9: The dragonfly 79
-Molt 8: The pitbull and the kitten—a two-in-one movement 80
-Molt 7: The egg 80
-Molt 6: Optimal oppositional friction 81
-Molt 5: The dragonfly nymph 82
-Molt 4: The pregnancy 83
-Molt 3: The birth 83
-Molt 2: The split 84
-Molt 1: Anaclitic therapy 84
-Final Molt: The dance of colors 85
-The emergence into the adult phase 86
-Epilogue 87
-Part Three 91 Transmogrification 91
-Molt 16: Intimate autonomy’s anatomy 91
-Fairy tale blueprints of an intimate autonomous relating pattern 97
-The king of the birds 97
-Florinda and Yoringal 99
-Personal experiences of an intimate autonomy 101
-Molt 15: “Formation, Transformation, Eternal Mind’s Eternal Animation” 102
-Molt 14: Anna 104
-Molt 13: Alchemical moments and clinical vignettes of the voyage into an intimate autonomy 108
-Alchemical moments 109
-The paradox and beyond 111
-Parkinson’s and I 113
-Anna and l 115
-Vignettes from Anna’s and my voyage 116
-John and I 120
-The dragonfly and I 121
-Ahab and Moby Dick 121
-The regressive space 122
-A clinical vignette 124
-A child of light is born 127
-Molt 12: The dynamic dialectic of play—Galatea 130
-Galatea 130
-Upside-down play 132
-Molt 11: The transmutation of the ice mirror 136
-The movement 138
-The real 139
-Molt 10: The disunion 142
-The fractured union 144
-The white cat 145
-The narcissist 148
-Molt 9: The dragonfly 149
-My dance with the dragonfly: Peering into the looking glass 150
-The dragonfly and me 150
-Dreams 155
-Molt 8: The pitbull and the kitten: A two-in-one movement 161
-The pitbull 162
-Fractals 165
-The word 167
-The pitbull and the kitten 168
-Molt 7: The egg 169
-Chaos theory 171
-Anna’s and my relating patterns 173
-The birth of the pitbull 175
-Molt 6: Optimal oppositional friction 178
-Molt 5: The dragonfly nymph 189
-Digesting the active imagination 190
-Anna’s and my separation 192
-Molt 4: The pregnancy 194
-The placenta 195
-The good-enough mother scaffolding 197
-Introjection 199
-Real 200
-Pregnancy 200
-Molt 3: The birth 201
-Three transformational requisites for flying 202
-Molt 2: The split 204
-The regression 205
-The vertical split 208
-Isaac Newton, the scientific alchemist 212
-Molt 1: Anaclitic therapy 216
-Regression revisited 216
-The third space revisited 219
-The third space 220
-A personal account of anaclitic therapy 221
-Anecdotes from our anaclitic therapy 229
-Final Molt: The dance of colors 231
-Red and white 232
-The whiteness of the whale 235
-The dragon fly 236
-The narrative 237
-Emergence into the adult phase 240
-The dance 240
-My dance into an intimate autonomy: a refection of the dragonfly 243
-A fugitive autonomy 248
-The word 251
-The hiss of hope (I) 252
-Epilogue 253 Dragonfly eyes 253
-My eyes 254
-Repetition compulsion 257
-Parkinson’s disease 259
-The centrality of me 261
-The hiss of hope (II) 263
-APPENDICES Appendix A-1: T. S. Eliot, “Burnt Norton” from The Four Quartets (1935) 265 Appendix -A-2: Hafez, “Every Child Has Known God” 267
-Appendix A-3: Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Two Voices” 267
-Appendix A-4: W. H. Davies, “The Dragonfly” 268
-Appendix A-5: Kahlil Gibran, “On Death” 269
-Appendix A-6: Paul Celan, “Death Fugue”/ “Todesfuge” 270
-Appendix A-7: “East Coker,” from The Four Quartets 273
-Appendix A-8: T. S. Eliot, “A Game of Chess” and “Death by Water,” from The Wasteland 274 -Appendix A-9: Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies “The Eighth Elegy”/ “Die Achte Elegie” 275 Appendix -A-10: William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming” 276
-Appendix A-11: Rainer Marie Rilke, “The First Elegy”/ “Die Erste Elegie” 277
-Appendix A-12: Alfred Lord Tennyson, “In Memorian,” Section 45 278
-Appendix A-13: Rainer Maria Rilke, “Archaic Torso of Apollo”/ “Archaischer Torso Apollos” 278
-Figure: The vertical and horizontal splits 280
-References 280
-About the Author 288
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