Marybeth Viglione
The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 10(4), 1992, p. 65-74.
Paris writes from an intensely personal perspective in bringing the ancient deities to life. She does not profess to be an authority on Greek mythology, but her gift is the sharing of the ways in which the gods and goddesses have touched her. At the same time, she finds a more general value in the personification of abstract concepts such as communication, reason, or passion, as well as clinical terms such as ego, defense mechanism, or complex.
The metaphorical gods and goddesses are embraced under a notion of "pagan mentality"; they simultaneously express flaws and attributes, in stark comparison to the Judeo-Christian divinities of perfection and totality (p. 65).
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