PAN AND THE NIGHTMARE - two essays

Irving/Texas: Spring Publications/University of Dallas, 1979. Being the only English translation from the German by A. V. O'Brien (Vienna, 1963/64) of: 'EPHIALTES: A pathological-mythological treatise on the nightmare in classical antiquity' by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1900). Together with 'An essay on Pan' serving as a psychological introduction to Roscher's 'Ephialtes' by James Hillman. Contents: I). An essay on Pan. 1). The text. 2). Roscher: Life, work and contribution to psychology. 3). The dream in 1900. 4). Pan, Goat-God of nature. 5). 'Instinct'. 6). Panic. 7). Pan and masturbation. 8). Rape. 9). Pan's Nymphs. 10). Spontaneity - Synchronicity. 11). Healing our madness. II). Ephialtes: 1). The nature and origin of the nightmare from the modern medical aspect. 2). The nature and origin of the nightmare according to the ancient physicians. 3). The old designations of the nightmare. 4). The most important of the Greek and Roman nightmare demons. With sources, notes and bibliographical end note. 88 pag. . Third unrevised printing. Green paperback. Cover with white lettters. 21cmx13,5cm.