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Reviews of Pagan Grace
Marybeth Viglione
The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 10(4), 1992, p. 65-74.
Paris writes from an intensely personal perspective in bringing the ancient deities to life. She does not profess to be an authority on Greek mythology, but her gift is the sharing of the ways in which the gods and goddesses have touched her. At the same time, she finds a more general value in the personification of abstract concepts such as communication, reason, or passion, as well as clinical terms such as ego, defense mechanism, or complex.
The metaphorical gods and goddesses are embraced under a notion of "pagan mentality"; they simultaneously express flaws and attributes, in stark comparison to the Judeo-Christian divinities of perfection and totality (p. 65).
Sheila Cogill
The Small Press Book Review
The provocative title of Ginette Paris' new book promises much. The book itself delivers on this promise threefold. Ms. Paris offers an absorbing exploration of how ancient divinities are present today in our efforts to enact soul-making through the body, to communicate, and to remember the past. ...
Highly recommended for anyone who wants to meditate or recollect the Divine in daily life. Also highly recommended for university libraries; theater, speech and communications collections; and for classical and psychological studies.
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