Responses to Myth, 2nd fully revised edition (2009)

In her review for the International Journal of Jungian Studies, Susan Rowland writes:

I have been recommending this excellent book, Myth, by Laurence Coupe to colleagues, students, scholars and friends ever since the arrival of the first edition in the late 1990s. Now in a revised, even better edition, with the inestimable benefit of a far stronger section on Jung, Myth deserves even wider appreciation. …

Also, as this new edition offers us, we see the extraordinary and vital growth of myth in response to environmental apocalypse. Coupe illustrates this in the example of James Lovelock's environmental science known as 'Gaia'. Lovelock readily adopted the ancient Greek myth of Gaia as Mother Earth who both nurtured and destroyed her children. His theory posited the Earth as a self regulating system capable of ridding itself of a dangerously invasive species such as human beings. Such an idea brings Coupe's radical typology into the heart of one of our most urgent debates. …

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