Jungian Ever After Orpheus – Archetypal Grief and Failure to Grieve

While our last episode discussed Orpheus through the lens of archetypal creativity, this episode focuses on the grief elements of the story as depicted in Ovid’s version of the story. We share our own grief stories and explore the hazards experienced when people do not allow themselves to grieve. This episode we will be reading from: Metamorphoses – by Ovid ⁠⁠⁠ Parables and Portraits – by Stephen Mitchell Orpheus. Euridice. Hermes. – by Rainer Maria Rilke You can listen to El Maleh Rachamim prayer on My Jewish Learning  here . This prayer asks God to grant rest to departed souls and is often recited at funerals. Our intro/outro music a sample of  Seikilos Epitaph with the Lyre of Apollo , by Lina Palera, under an Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 International License. You can find the full version at  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FreeMusicArchive.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ . Banner Image: Kratzenstein orpheus.jpg – Wikipedia Email: jungianeverafter@gmail.com Twitter: @JEA_Podcast Discord: Ko-fi:

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Jungian Ever After Orpheus – Archetypal Grief and Failure to Grieve is an episode from Jungianthology Podcast by C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.

This episode is 52:10 long.

This episode was published on Feb 25, 2026.

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