Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean filmmaker, playwright, poet, actor, novelist and comic-book writer, also long based in France. Known for avant-garde films such as El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973), and for his work on psychomagic and tarot.
Books
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1. Psicomagia
Terapia psico-mágica
A provocative manual that blends psychotherapy, ritual, theater and symbolic action into a practice designed to heal emotional wounds by bypassing the rational mind; it argues that carefully staged, poetic acts — tailored to a person’s family history and psychic blocks — can shock the unconscious into resolution and transform inherited trauma. Drawing on myths, the tarot, alchemy and clinical anecdotes, the book offers theoretical foundations and concrete prescriptions for creative, often theatrical interventions that function as mythic medicine, aiming to restore emotional freedom and artistic vitality.
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2. The Incal, Vol. 1
A down-on-his-luck private investigator named John Difool stumbles into possession of a mysterious, luminous artifact after surviving a violent raid and is hurled into a sprawling, psychedelic space-opera: hunted by rival factions, corrupt technocratic authorities and bizarre assassins, he teams with an enigmatic, radiant woman (Animah), a loyal, oddly sentient canine companion (Deepo) and other strange allies as they travel across surreal planets, uncover galactic conspiracies and confront metaphysical mysteries that blend politics, religion and personal transformation in a visually extravagant, hallucinatory adventure.
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3. Psicomagia. Una Terapia Panica
Una terapia pánica
A provocative therapeutic method that combines surreal, symbolic rituals, theater, tarot, myth and shamanic elements to bypass the rational mind and heal deep emotional and familial wounds; patients are prescribed personalized, often dramatic symbolic actions intended to shock the psyche, resolve unconscious conflicts and restore creativity and psychic balance through embodied, performative interventions rooted in the anti-establishment 'Panic' artistic sensibility.
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