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  XI. Cupid and Psyche. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age of Fable
Psyche gave ear to the admonitions of her vocal attendants, and after repose and the refreshment of the bath, seated herself in the alcove, where a table immediately presented itself, without any visible aid from waiters or servants, and covered with the greatest delicacies of food and the most nectareous wines.
Psyche resisted these persuasions as well as she could, but they did not fail to have their effect on her mind, and when her sisters were gone, their words and her own curiosity were too strong for her to resist.
Psyche obeyed the commands of Ceres and took her way to the temple of Venus, endeavoring to fortify her mind and ruminating on what she should say and how best propitiate the angry goddess, feeling that the issue was doubtful and perhaps fatal.
www.bartleby.com /181/111.html   (3168 words)

  
  Psyche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In psychology and related fields, the psyche is the entirety of the non-physical aspects of a person.
In late Greek art and literature, a goddess who is the personification of the soul; she is primarily known for her role in the story of Cupid and Psyche, best attested in Apuleius' novel The Golden Ass.
Psyche (journal) An academic journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of consciousness.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psyche   (189 words)

  
 ARC ARTicles - Cupid & Psyche - Sharrell E. Gibson - Page 1/1
Psyche was the daughter of a king and queen who had become famous for her unparalleled beauty.
Psyche was given a drink of Ambrosia, which endowed her with eternal immortality, and most importantly, eternity with Cupid.
Although, Psyche covers her breasts, it is more likely that it is just a girlish attempt at retaining her dignity, as opposed to embarrassed restraint.
www.artrenewal.org /articles/2001/Cupid_and_Psyche/cupidpsyche1.asp   (1842 words)

  
 Psyche (psychology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Whilst psyche only exists in the body and is connected to the body, soul refers to the part that is unfading.
Psyche can be accessed by the mind and mind can uncover the distortions of reality that psyche has adapted to.
The term „non-material organ“ is used to relate to these two parts of psyche: “non-material” refers to the fact that psyche is not visible whilst “organ” designates something that inseparably belongs to the body.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Psyche_(psychology)   (576 words)

  
 Psyche, Greek Mythology Link.
In any case Psyche was brought to Aphrodite, who promised her the sort of welcome that a good mother-in-law is bound to give her son's wife, and clapping her hands the goddess called her attendants Anxiety and Grief, and gave Psyche over to them for a lesson.
Psyche was also instructed not to feel pity for anybody in the Underworld, and never grant the requests of the dead, as hauling them into the boat or giving any kind of help, for Pity is strictly forbidden in that world.
Psyche did what she was told, and when she met Persephone, still following instructions she sat on the ground instead of on the cushioned chair she was offered, and she refused the meal that was served in front of her.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Psyche.html   (2362 words)

  
 Psyche - Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse und ihre Anwendungen
Die PSYCHE sollte offen sein für alle Strömungen der Tiefenpsychologie in den von ihr beeinflußten theoretischen und praktischen Gebieten.
Seit den 60er Jahren setzt in der PSYCHE eine verstärkte Rezeption und Veröffentlichung sowohl der von den Nazis ins Exil getriebenen Psychoanalytikerinnen und Psychoanalytiker als auch der neueren psychoanalytischen Ansätze vor allem aus den angelsächsischen Ländern ein.
Auch diese Debatte wurde von der PSYCHE und den damaligen Mitarbeitern (seit 1983 hatten Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, Helmut Dahmer und Lutz Rosenkötter die Herausgeberschaft übernommen) aktiv betrieben und dokumentiert.
www.psyche.de   (693 words)

  
 Psyche
The goddess then sent her son Eros to make Psyche fall in love with an ugly man. However, the god himself fell in love with the girl and visited her every night, but forbade her to see his face, so she did not know who her lover was.
Psyche wandered the earth in search of her lover, until she was finally reunited with him.
On ancient Greek vases, Psyche is portrayed in the shape of a bird with a human head, sometimes with a beard.
www.pantheon.org /articles/p/psyche.html   (217 words)

  
 Eros and Psyche
Psyche is clothed in a wedding gown and brought to the mountain where she is to be sacrificed.
The sisters convince Psyche that her husband must be a monster since she has not seen him and advice her to check that very night in the light of the oil lamp.
Psyche does as the tower has said but when she reaches the light of the mortal world, she is tempted by curiosity to look in the box.
library.thinkquest.org /26264/myths/tales/gods/site010.htm   (1330 words)

  
 ~Cupid and Psyche~
Psyche, the youngest daughter of a king and queen, had such an extraordinary beauty that the people in the kingdom began to pay tribute to her in the manner reserved only for the gods and goddesses.
Psyche, resigned to her fate, went to the mountain, fully expecting the gods to put an end to her life.
Psyche, wishing to share her beautiful life with her sisters, asked that they be permitted to visit.
members.tripod.com /~ritae80/angels/cupid.html   (527 words)

  
 Cupid and Psyche
Psyche gave ear to the admonitions of her vocal attendants, and after repose and the refreshment of the bath, seated herself in the alcove, where a table immediately presented itself, without any visible aid from waiters or servants, and covered with the greatest delicacies of food and the most nectareous wines.
Psyche resisted these persuasions as well as she could, but they did not fail to have their effect on her mind, and when her sisters were gone, their words and her own curiosity were too strong for her to resist.
Psyche obeyed the commands of Ceres and took her way to the temple of Venus, endeavoring to fortify her mind and ruminating on what she should say and how best propitiate the angry goddess, feeling that the issue was doubtful and perhaps fatal.
www.pitt.edu /~dash/cupid.html   (2926 words)

  
 Brief Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Psyche had to prove her worth by accomplishing a series of seemingly impossible and dangerous feats that were required by her mother-in-law, the goddess Aphrodite.
In so doing, the goddess Psyche embarked on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and personal growth that earned her the respect of all the gods and goddesses on Mount Olympus, not to mention the respect and admiration of her husband.
Greek goddess Psyche remind us that the integration of our experiences, however sad or frightening they may be, mature and transform us, like her symbol, the butterfly, emerging into the light from the darkness of the cocoon.
www.goddessgift.com /goddess-myths/goddess_psyche.htm   (198 words)

  
 Psyche
Psyche, the story goes, spent her days alone, making love each night in darkness with a husband she never saw; only under these conditions would he remain faithful to her.
Next, the tale goes, Psyche was charged with many near-impossible tasks to gain back her beloved: sorting overnight a roomful of seeds; catching the fleece of the sun's sheep; travelling to the underworld to ask for magical beauty ointment.
Psyche fell into a swoon and might have died, but Eros persuaded the Olympian divinities that she had struggled enough.
www.hranajanto.com /goddessgallery/psyche.html   (305 words)

  
 Psyche (disambiguation) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Psyche (disambiguation)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Cupid (or Eros) was a popular subject in mythological and sentimental works of art, where he is often portrayed as a winged child with a bow and arrows, which he shoots through the hearts of men and women, causing them to fall in love.
Unseen and unknown, Cupid visited Psyche each night until her envious sisters told her that she was embracing a hideous monster in the darkness.
Princess Psyche suffers the evil plots of her sisters Cidippe and Aglaura, who are jealous of her beauty.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Psyche+(disambiguation)   (334 words)

  
 The Tale of Cupid and Psyche
Psyche, abandoned to her fate on the mountain top, is rescued and carried away by Zephyrus, the West Wind.
Psyche's quest to win back Cupid's love when it is lost to her first appears in The Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius in the 2nd century AD.
Psyche becomes an immortal and the lovers are married in heaven.
www.bl.uk /whatson/exhibitions/psyche.html   (345 words)

  
 psyche and herakles
Psyche (Greek: "soul") is the youngest daughter of a king and fairer by far than her two older sisters.
Abandoned on the mountain peak, Psyche is weeping bitterly when suddenly she is wafted aloft by a breeze and carried away, only to be set down gently in a most beautiful valley.
Psyche, however, misses her sisters and with tears often implores her husband to bring them to visit her.
www.usd.edu /~jsebesta/psyche.html   (1021 words)

  
 glbtq >> arts >> Subjects of the Visual Arts: Psyche
Psyche, a late addition to Olympian divinities, was a beautiful young girl whose name in Greek means "Soul." One source claims that she was the daughter of the Sun (divine light) and Endelechia (the ripeness of Time).
Moreover, while Psyche is female, she may be read as a symbol of the male soul; hence, images of Psyche often blur gender boundaries.
Psyche has inspired operas by Pier Francesco Cavalli and Jean-Baptiste Lully, ballets by Mikhail Fokine and Frederick Ashton, and appears as often in painting and sculpture as in literature.
www.glbtq.com /arts/subjects_psyche.html   (954 words)

  
 Psyche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Psyche to the love-god Eros: an union of soul with body.
When Psyche insisted on seeing Eros by the light of her lamp, he was forced to leave her forever.
Psyche was incarnate in the butterfly, because the early Greeks believed that souls could inhabit insects when passing from one life to the next.
www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/p/psyche.html   (189 words)

  
 Psyche and Eros
Psyche, who was the youngest of the three daughters, was so incredibly beautiful that people in her village and outlying areas STOPPED praying to Aphrodite, taking Psyche for the Goddess of Beauty instead.
Psyche, though kind and happy with her mysterious husband, was a woman, and with that came an almost insatiable curiosity (according to the Greeks, and the Christians, and most others).
This time she turned on Psyche, thrust a small box at her, and told her to descend to Persephone, the cold Queen of the Underworld, and bring back some of her beauty in the box - for Aphrodite was growing tired in tending her son.
www.paleothea.com /Myths/Psyche.html   (2054 words)

  
 Psyche
Psyche is my latest project, an attempt to combine the virtues of Python with those of Scheme.
Psyche comes with extensive documentation; even though it is not yet finished, the documentation is already quite readable.
Psyche is released under the GNU GPL, a copy of which is included in the download.
www.xs4all.nl /~yduppen/site/psyche.html   (378 words)

  
 Psyche, Greek Goddess of The Soul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Psyche decided to take just a quick peek while he lay sleeping, but a drop of hot oil from her lamp accidentally spilled on his shoulder, waking him.
Terrified that she too would be crushed, Psyche took the advice of a nearby reed that whispered to her to wait until nightfall when the ram slept before entering the field and to gather the fleece that had fallen off the ram and clung to the branches of the flthorn trees.
The future goddess Psyche's last and most frightening challenge was to descend into the underworld, the kingdom of the dead, and to return with a box of sleeping potion from Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, all the while ignoring the pleas for help from all the unfortunate that she encountered.
www.goddessgift.com /goddess-myths/greek_goddess_psyche.htm   (809 words)

  
 Metropolis Records: Psyche
This event helped to propel Psyche into the spotlight, diversify their already growing fan base, and give them the popularity they needed to headline their first ever tour throughout France, Belgium, Sweden, Holland and Germany.
This is not a continuation of Psyche's past releases — this is their purgatory and their revelation.
As the swan song to the old Psyche to enable their rebirth, The 11th Hour is not "pop" music per se, but a collection of raw nerves, desperation, adrenaline, and erupting passion.
www.metropolis-records.com /artists/?artist=psyche   (898 words)

  
 Erich Neumann: Amor and Psyche
Psyche’s act ends the mythical age in the archetypal world, the age in which the relation between the sexes depended only on the superior power of the gods, who held [sic] men at their mercy.
Psyche’s act refers to her rebellious act of disobeying Eros’ command that she remain with him in the paradisiacal embrace of darkness and not know his identity.
Psyche drives Eros and herself from their paradise of uroboric unconsciousness, but the knowledge she acquires is for the sake of establishing a conscious relationship with him.
www.scils.rutgers.edu /~mjoseph/neumann.html   (3408 words)

  
 Bulfinch's Mythology, The Age of Fable - Chapter 11: CUPID AND PSYCHE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
While Psyche stood on the ridge of the mountain, panting with fear and with eyes full of tears, the gentle Zephyr raised her from the earth and bore her with an easy motion into a flowery dale.
Psyche obeyed the commands of Ceres and took her way to the temple of Venus, endeavouring to fortify her mind and ruminating on what she should say and how best propitiate the angry goddess, feeling that the issue was doubtful and perhaps fatal.
Psyche was now satisfied that her destruction was at hand, being obliged to go with her own feet directly down to Erebus.
www.bulfinch.org /fables/bull11.html   (3170 words)

  
 Mythography | The Legend of Psyche in Myth and Art
According to the story told in the Metamorphoses, Psyche was the youngest daughter of a king (incidentally, she had two older sisters).
Psyche was so stunningly beautiful that her appearance rivaled that of a goddess.
Indeed, the simple people of her county were so in awe of Psyche's grace and beauty that they stopped worshipping Aphrodite (the real goddess) and paid their honors instead to the daughter of a king.
www.loggia.com /myth/psyche.html   (419 words)

  
 WIC - History of Women through Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
Although Psyche was a mortal, her loveliness challenged the beauty of Aphrodite who became annoyed and sent her son Eros to cause Psyche to fall in love with a wretched mortal.
Psyche was placed in a room full of assorted grains and told to sort them by nightfall which she did with the aid of an army of ants.
Psyche did this with the aid of the Eagle who flew to the Waterfall with the container.
www.wic.org /artwork/psyche.htm   (381 words)

  
 Play - The Marriage of Psyche
And when Psyche is left on the mountain top, Cupid shall strike her with an arrow so that she falls in love with this creature.
Psyche must be left on this mountain top, and when darkness comes she will be wedded to a creature who strikes fear even in the hearts of the gods.
Psyche: She and I agreed that you were by far the most beautiful being of the universe, Aphrodite.
www.hipark.austin.isd.tenet.edu /mythology/psycheplay.html   (2541 words)

  
 P S Y C H E: About
PSYCHE (ISSN: 1039-723X) is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain.
PSYCHE publishes material relevant to that exploration from the perspectives afforded by the disciplines of cognitive science, philosophy, psychology, physics, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and anthropology.
PSYCHE publishes a large variety of articles and reports for a diverse academic audience.
psyche.cs.monash.edu.au /psychefaq.html   (1491 words)

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