Popular author and Jungian anayst Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., illuminates our selves, our families, and our relationships through Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle operas - enduring dramas of mythic love and power that connect with the deepest levels of our psyche.

Through the stories of Fricka, Wotan, Siegmund, Sieglinde, Brunhilde, and Siegfried we see our own experiences, longings and weaknesses. As Bolen demonstrates, this empoweing new consciousness of the fundamental dynamics of the family and society reveals our buried desires and liberates our untapped strengths.