ABSTRACT
This book explores relations between literature, psyche and nature. It uses Jung, evolution, myth and alchemy to do so. By blending ancient resources of alchemy and myth with cultural and scienti®c research around evolution, we ®nd an ecocritical psyche. In particular, the understanding of symbols is an important link between knowledge assigned to science, and the evolution of the arts, including literature. Indeed, such research has troubled traditional divisions of knowledge. One example was explored in Chapter 2. Wendy Wheeler, a literature scholar, examines the science of biosemiosis or signifying in the non-human in order to posit nature's creativity as culture in us (Wheeler 2006).
