Will and the Nymphs - Ellington, William

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Résumé :
As my grandmother might say, this is a bonny book, one that moves bonnily along, and possibly is one of only a very few on this subject. This book is a tapestry of fantasy/fiction into which a psychological treatise is woven. It is a sensual but non-sexual story of a middle-aged man and four Nymphs to whom he is forever bound; it is story of the faerie. It is not one in which the long obscure prince comes into his own, falling in love with, and marrying, the princess. Nor is it the one in which Cinderella, due to the accident of the loss of a glass slipper, gets the much-in-demand, yet lonely, prince, and they live happily ever after (that is, until the heir to the throne is born nine months later). It is not like that at all. If you overtly or covertly enjoy a bit of magic, you will like the book. It is Jungian in psychological orientation. This piece of work is a preternaturally fictionalized, openly mythologized, creatively theologized and sometime-poeticized and even romanticized personification of a man's (Will's) psychic feminine (Nymphs). This book is initially completed except for sequential material. As far as I know, no other psychologically directed book has been written about the masculine psychic feminine in a fantasy/fictional genre. This fairy story offers an insight into the collective unconscious of the masculine, a man's mind. This brief book (approximately 105-115 pages) is made up of an introduction, a prologue, eight chapters and a summary. The introduction offers an apologia as it creates a mythotheopoeic foundation upon which the fantasy castle can be built. The prologue offers a justification for the writing of the book in the first place, as well as a somewhat prejudicial account of the lasting value to those who read the book. The chapters will be outlined elsewhere in this proposal, but I might say that each of them deals with an encounter couched in fairyland terms. Each of the Nymphs is featured in a chapter, the theme