A Celtic Quest Sexuality and Soul in Individualism - John Layard

Note: Paperback, 254 pages - Light mark on outside of page block - See photos. The classic Welsh tale of heroic youth in search of soul finds a master equal to its riddles in John Layard, Oxford Anthropologist and Jungian analyst of genius. The quest proceeds as a boar hunt, encountering giants and dwarves, helpful ants, the witch hag, until the soul is won, Insight into the celtic mind and it's rich symbols, the sexual aspect of individualism and Psychotherapy, Brilliant appendices on Athene and Hephaestus, Anima, animus, splitting open the head, and the incest taboo, together with a full index and helpful scholarly apparatus, have established this volume as the standard interpretive psychological text of Celtic Legend. ----- OBAYF