The trilogy is an archetypal drama based on a fictional Jungian analysis, in which the reader can experience being both analyst and patient. It explores the compulsion of shadow- ’the dark side of self’, through waking dreams and ancient myth in the transformative process. By tracing the unknown past of the Shadow Woman, and making the transference conscious- confronting the primal chaos of shadow and unconscious merging, while suffering loss of identity and fear of the death of the self, a new psychic order is created, changing the nature of relationship. Jung on the mystery of transference reveals a kind of alchemical transformation as "a bond of such intensity that we can almost speak of [the change] when two chemical substances combine and both are altered.”
The story of Nola Lupa, the wolf girl, evolves in an Oedipal saga through time, reflected through the lens of Greek tragedy, Greco-Roman and Etruscan motifs, Christian mysticism, alchemy, and physics, linking the personal and archetypal dimensions of self, and healing the split between shadow and ego.
Quote from SHADOW WOMAN: OR ROMANCING THE DEAD
To learn how to love, one must learn how to die.
