PSYCHODRAMA OF THE SPHINX

Abstract

Moreno, founder of the psychodramatic movement, states that he found some of his inspirations in, among other sources, mythology and customs of ancient people.*

One may mention in this respect, as Moreno did in his own writings: role reversal-the Socratic method; Father Christmas-the magic shop; Hamlet-the mirror technique, the double-Dostoievsky. Besides finding them, Moreno adapted them for therapeutic purposes.

This was our own procedure after several years of research on the symbolic meaning of beings with a polymorphous structure, especially the Sphinxes. In a book now in press we give the basic elements which led us to demonstrate that the Sphinx is actually a symbol of the evolutionary and psychosomatic structure of Man. In a number of esoteric publications we find the interpretation that the animals making up the Sphinx are inter- related parts of Man and, at the same time represent his development as a human from animal origins.