Greek Mythology and archetypal psychology

sources for understanding the echoes and reflexes of the pandemic

Abstract

This article analyzed the symbolic echoes and reflexes of the pandemic in the light of analytic and archetypal psychology and interweaving concepts of unus mundus, animism and imaginal perspective with Greek myths. From the stories of Echo, Narcissus, Artemisia, Hestia, Hermes and Pan, the article discussed the echoes and reflexes of the pandemic on a narcissist society, in a era of generalized fears and panic, with the deterioration of the environment, the excessive use of social networks and technology, the need for social isolation and the return home. The work also approached what Greeks used to call hybris – human arrogance of believing themselves to be above the gods – as the evil of an era disconnected from the collective and nature. Finally, the article highlights the importance of an education for seeing and understanding the internal and external images and proposes a soul-making as part of the recovery of the world’s soul.