Dennis Pottenger is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist and award-winning literary journalist based in the USA.

Rebecca Livingston Pottenger is a licensed psychotherapist, feminist scholar, and adjunct faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA.

Acknowledgments

Prelude: Preparing the Canvas

Part I - The Death of Remedios Varo and the Science of All Things

One - Varo's Alchemical Practice of Painting and the Problem of Patriarchy

Two -The Fructifying Bonfire of Trauma and Death

Three - Putting the Canvas on the Easel: Surrealism, Alchemy, and the Unconscious

Four - The End as Beginning: Varo's Dream of the Executioner, Last Painting, and Death

Five - Embroidering the Earth's Mantle: Psychology, Alchemy, and Weaving the Garment of a New World

Six - Voyage to the Center of the Inner World: The Feminine Quest, the Labyrinth, and the Dangerous Secret

Seven - Cauldrons of Color: Dead Leaves and the Alchemical Movement Between Life, Death, and Rebirth

Eight - Birds and Eggs: Symbol of the Liberated Soul and Image of Immortality

Nine - The Dream of the Executioner: A Paradigm Shift

Part II - Mystical Sisters: Varo, Carrington, the Eternal Feminine, and the Unmaking of Patriarchy

Ten - Kindred Spirits: Varo, Carrington, and the Possibilities of Women's Creative Power

Eleven - Breaking Out: Varo, Carrington, and Blackening the Patriarchal Paradigm

Twelve - In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf: Humiliated Manhood and Re-Visioning of the Feminine

Thirteen - Alchemy in Exile: Varo and Carrington in Mexico City

Fourteen - The Way They Loved Each Other: The Crucible of Friendship and the Unmaking of Patriarchy

Part III - Symbols of Transformation: The Golden Key, the Black Door, and the Inestimable Value of the Living Third Thing

Fifteen - Imaginal Dialogues: The Alchemical Treasure of the Feminine