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The Rilke Lectures -
Philosophy – Religion – Myth – Poetry – Psychology
Windows into the Wisdom of the Sophianic Cross
Originally prepared for a Pacifica Graduate Institute course on The Poetic Basis of Mind, these eight lectures stand on their own as a unique and cohesive treatment of many core concerns of the soul. As a unified whole, the lecture-essays focus upon dynamics internal to what the author (only now, years after their original composition) has come to call “the Sophianic Cross.” That aegis includes not only psychology and art, but myth, religion, and philosophy as well, all pictured in relation to one another in the form of the cross-like configuration visible on this book’s cover.
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| | Praise for The Rilke Lectures
“Long before the emergence of psychology, the poets were the seafarers through the vasty deeps of the soul. Among the most sensitive, nuanced, and revelatory is Rainer Maria Rilke. Daniel Polikoff’s The Rilke Lectures is a marvelous exploration of this bond between the aesthetic and the psychological. His illuminations of Rilke’s oeuvre alone are worth reading, but the linkage forged with depth psychology broadens the field and is a true gift.”
—James Hollis, co-author (with Enrique Celaya) of Tending the Fire: Creativity, Purpose, and the Unfolding Self
“This book is a masterful exploration that immerses us in the enigmatic world of Rilke’s vision. Polikoff’s insightful lectures draw us back to the profound root of our discipline—the poetic basis of mind—and enhance our understanding of the rich seam that binds together depth psychological thought and poetic imagination.”
—Safron Rossi, Ph.D., author of The Kore Archetype: A Mythology & Psychology
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| | | | About the Author
San Francisco Bay Area resident Daniel Joseph Polikoff has published nine books of poetry, translation, criticism, creative non-fiction, and history. He is currently adjunct professor at the Pacifica Graduate Institute.
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Also from Daniel Joseph Polikoff
In the Image of Orpheus Rilke, a Soul History
In the Image of Orpheus tells the inner story of Rilke's literary career, tracing—step by step—the mythopoetic journey inscribed in the interweaving lines of the poet's life and art. Blending biography with in-depth analyses of Rilke's poetry and prose (from his little-known Visions of Christ through the Sonnets to Orpheus), the lively narrative draws upon Hillman and Jung, Plato and Petrarch, Apuleius, Ibn Arabi and Lou Andreas-Salomé, as it unfolds the poet-seer's vision of the nature and destiny of the human soul—a vision as timely as it is timeless.
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| | Rue Rilke
Travelogue, literary autobiography, and journalistic exposé of the mores of capital punishment, Rue Rilke chronicles its author’s initiatory Rilke pilgrimage to France and Switzerland and—upon his return to America—his up-close involvement in death penalty politics. Immersed in the legal and human drama unfolding in Houston in the days leading up to an impending execution, the intimate linkage of love and death learned from Rilke aid him in his efforts to confront his country’s sanction of lethal violence and make spiritual sense of his torn, too often black-and-white world.
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