GUSTAVO BARCELLOS
Gustavo Barcellos is a Jungian analyst practicing in São Paulo, Brazil. He is the author of many books and articles in the field of archetypal psychology, imagination, and the arts. He has translated several of James Hillman’s books into the Portuguese language and has been responsible for introducing archetypal psychology to Brazilian students.
ZEUS
The Order of the World and
Archetypal Fatherhood
Paperback original, 134 pages, $20
ISBN: 978-0-88214-153-4
Kindle/Apple Books, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-154-1
Barcellos’s newest book, published last year in Brazil as Zeus: Fabulação do mundo e paternidade arquetípica and elegantly translated by Tracy Smith Miyake, examines the mythical figure of Zeus from the viewpoint of Jungian psychoanalysis, with its various implications on our understandings of fatherhood, sovereignty, power, fertility, regency, and the order of the world. Speaking of Zeus already places us in a superlative mode within the imagination of superiority, heights, mountaintops, the psychology of everything that is on the order of supremacy, majesty, things that are above, on a summit or a peak or, ultimately, in heaven, from which he descends, he precipitates. The language itself begins to change, assuming superlative words and adjectives: he is supreme, superiority, sovereignty.
The book also addresses some psychological aspects of marriage, based on what Greek mythology contributes on this topic in the relationship between Zeus and Hera as well as that of Zeus and Athena with special attention to the father-daughter relationship—a link that has been poorly explored in depth psychology and psychoanalysis, which more frequently focus on the mother-son relationship typified in the Oedipus complex. The relationship between Zeus and Athena offers us a chance to examine the complex psychology of love between fathers and daughters.
THE SIBLING ARCHETYPE
The Psychology of Brothers and Sisters
and the Meaning of Horizontality
With a foreword by GLEN SLATER
Paperback original, 84 pages, $20
ISBN: 978-0-88214-050-6
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ISBN: 978-0-88214-051-37
Barcellos’s groundbreaking study on the psychodynamics of brothers and sisters, published in Portuguese in 2009, has been revised and expanded for its English edition on the theme of horizontality by this leading Jungian analyst. The fundamental role of the Sibling archetype in structuring and establishing individual adult life is undeniable, yet still dismissed. Brothers and sisters are powerful figures in our lives as we build our mature relationship patterns. Psychology must follow the movement that has been detected in other arts and sciences: the current search for the paradigm of brotherhood and horizontality. The Sibling is the archetypal basis for constructing the Other, and for recreating an idea and a sense of community within the new orders of the contemporary world.
IMAGINAL WORLDS
According to Corbin, Hillman, and Jung
Edited by MARCO ANDRÉ SCHWARZSTEIN
With essays by GUSTAVO BARCELLOS, TOM CHEETHAM,
ROBERTO CREMA, JEAN-YVES LELOUP,
PUNITA MIRANDA,
and MARCO ANDRÉ SCHWARZSTEIN
First edition, 152 pages, $22
ISBN: 978-0-88214-157-2
Kindle/Apple Books, $9.99
ISBN: 978-0-88214-156-5
This book, edited by Marco André Schwarzstein, brings together a selection of papers presented by Gustavo Barcellos, Tom Cheetham, Roberto Crema, Jean-Yves Leloup, Punita Miranda, and Marco André Schwarzstein at "I Encontro Imaginal: O Resgate da Alma do Mundo" (The First Imaginal Congress: Rescuing the Soul of the World), which took place on September 5-7, 2020 in Brasília. These papers not only introduced the "imaginal" ideas of Henry Corbin, James Hillman, and C. G. Jung to a wider audience in Brazil but, for the first time, presented their work also in the contexts of Roger Woolger's Deep Memory Process and Brazilian spiritual traditions.