This work was originally written in 2013 as a final paper during training in analytical psychology at the C. G. Jung Institute Zürich. It explores Dionysus from psychological, mythological and cultural perspectives and concludes with dreams, active imagination and symbolic material related to the Dionysian experience.

The original structure of the manuscript has been preserved and the text has undergone only light editorial revision.

The material is divided into chapters and parts, with links to the published material provided below. The remaining chapters and parts will be published and linked below gradually.

Contents

Chapter I – Introduction

Part I – Instinct and Image
Part II – Consciousness and Culture
Part III – Emotions
Part IV – Dionysus and Apollo

Chapter II – Myth and Psychology

Part I – Persephone
Part II – Semele
Part III – Birth
Part IV – Ariadne

Chapter III – Cult and Psychology

Part I – Crete
Part II – General Cult
Part III – Cult in Athens
Part IV – Drama

Chapter IV – Dionysus Today

Part I – To the One Who Died
Part II – Burning Woman
Part III – My Desire
Part IV – Tear Pearl

Bibliography

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For Croatian readers, a shorter introductory article based on this work is available here: Dioniz – kultura i priroda.