ABSTRACT

This chapter is an introduction of the author's quest for something in this work on research that keeps soul in mind that is held in the word itself. It presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book shows how the themes of love, loss, mourning, descent, dismemberment, and anamnesis (or un-forgetting), among others, accurately depict the Orphic moment of the re-search process that would keep soul in mind. It explores what is the shadow of our psychologies; how are our psychologies psychological; what qualifies them beyond their own names; and what is the psychology that builds a monument to soul. The book makes the case that it is the Orphic voice that guides re-search with soul in mind, that the fantasy and myth behind re-search with soul in mind are the archetypal figures of Orpheus and Eurydice.