This brilliant book brings Pan back to life, following C. G. Jung’s famous saying that the gods have become our diseases. Chapters on nightmarish panic, masturbation, rape and nympholepsy, instinct and synchronicity, and Pan’s lovers – Echo, Syringa, Selene and the Muses – show how the goat god works and plays in the dark drives and creative passions of our lives.

The book includes a complete translation of EPHIALTES, Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher’s masterful pathological treatise (19th century) on Pan and the demons of the night.