Acting, Archetype, and Neuroscience

Preface

Introduction

Section One: Origins

Chapter 1: Returning to Mythic Roots

Physical Beginnings of Acting

Current Actor Training

Current Training

Hymn: To Vulcan (Hephaistos), Fumigation from Frankincense and Manna

Chapter 2: Resurrecting Mythic Stories

Linking Neuroscience and Archetypal Mythology

Chapter 3: Primary Conflict and the Hero's Journey

Primary Conflict: Order Versus Chaos

Peter and Wendy

Section Two: The Exercises and the Work

Chapter 4: The Exercises

Meditation

Magnets

Push, Pull, Hold, Release

Sticks

Viewpoints

Second Viewpoints Class: Contact and Company

Day Three: Company, Architecture, and Music

Chapter 5: Beginning Superscenes

Text and Archetypes

Fourth Session: Exercise: Using the Monomyth

A Linear Representation of the Hero's Journey

Inciting Incident: Exact Scene? Exact Line? Exact Rationale?

Chapter 6: Two Hero's Journeys

The Hero's Journey of Muhammad Ali

Hamlet's Journey: A Brief and Debatable Look at Hamlet as Hero

Chapter 7: Bridging and Superscenes

Bridges

Superscenes

Superscenes and Memory

Section Three: Neuroscience and Images

Chapter 8: Mirror Neurons, Emotions, Memory, Meditation, Embodiment, and Images

The Limbic System

The Eternally Balancing Body

Meditation

Phenomenology: The Study of the Experience of Intention

Mirror Neurons

Second Person Interactivity: MNs

The Use of Metaphor, Image, and Active Words

Memory: Images and the Brain

Memory, Archetype, and Mirror Neurons

Memory Consolidation

Chapter 9: Archetypal Patterns

Family Stories

CG Jung

Archetypal Patterns of Plots

Chapter 10: Archetypal Journey; In The Blood by Susan Lori Parks

The Ancient Story, Myth and Archetype

Protagonist/Antagonist Statement

Hester's Hero's Journey

Chapter 11: Conclusion

Bibliography

Index