Product Description: "I have entitled this book For Love of the Imagination. Long ago, I fell in love with the imagination. It was love at first sight. I have had a lifelong love affair with the imagination. I would love for others, through this book, to fall in love, as I once did, with the imagination...read more

What distinguishes this book from previous books on mythology and psychology is that Adams provides so many impressive examples of how myths appear in contemporary life. Adams examines the psychological significance of Oedipus, Odysseus, Hercules, the Hydra, Poseidon, Chronos, Medusa, Tezcatlipoca, the labyrinth, the Minotaur, the griffin, the unicorn, and many other mythological creatures, and concludes by presenting a dream that beautifully exemplifies the “myth of the hero.” With wit and clarity, this book brings us into the incredibly rich psychic reality of the infinitely creative human imagination. Michael Vannoy Adams declares that the ancient gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, and fabulous creatures are alive and well within us. They exist in the mythological unconscious and emerge in the dreams and fantasies of modern men and women

Product Description: Contemporary psychoanalysis needs less reality and more fantasy; what Michael Vannoy Adams calls the 'fantasy principle'. The Fantasy Principle radically affirms the centrality of imagination. It challenges us to exercise and explore the imagination, shows us how to value vitally important images that emerge from the unconscious, how to evoke such images, and how to engage them decisively...read more

Product Description: The Multicultural Imagination is a challenging inquiry into the complex interrelationship between our ideas about race and color and the unconscious. Michael Vannoy Adams takes a fresh look at the contributions of psychoanalysis to a question which affects every individual who tries to establish an effective personal identity in the context of their received 'racial' identity...read more