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.”
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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.
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Quote from SHADOW WOMAN: OR ROMANCING THE DEAD
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To learn how to love, one must learn how to die.
