ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how Jung's turn to the feminine can be understood through yet another binary, in the mutually constituting myths of Earth Mother and Sky Father. To summarize, three principal developments in Jung's overall project characterize Jung's attempt to re-orient consciousness to encompass the non-essentialist feminine. They are his adoption of Eros and Logos as gendered styles of consciousness, the role of the ambivalent figure of the trickster, and his paradigm-shifting notion of synchronicity. Writing as Dionysian, as Jung does, may offer the twenty-first century a remarkable transdisciplinary potential for psychic renewal via knowledge, or epistemology itself. Dionysus arises in an age too dominated by the sun god Apollo's rationality. The union of Dionysus and Ariadne is a successful conjoining of human and divine. In fact, the marriage of Ariadne and Dionysus is incarnated in symbols. Dionysian comedy and tragedy influence the formation of psychology itself, in particular those psychologies that pause before the instinctual unrestraint of the unconscious.
