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Gina Rochell’s novel, The Tales of Albin and Áslaug: A Promise of Devotion is a study of the unconscious: the underworld of soul which reveals perspectives on healing that are elicited by archetypes, creativity, the dream soul, and mythology. Three characters, Albin, Alda, and Áslaug travel to Iceland and discover their personal dream soul is interlinked with an Icelandic saga. When they return home to Ireland, they begin to mend by returning to family stories of love and death. Stories of their family’s loss dwell not only in their personal memories but are interwoven with the collective soul, politics, and history of Ireland: ancient wounds are also personal scars. This tale is not driven by plot, but rather the internal mechanisms of the personal psyche and its relationship to the collective unconscious. From the ancestors, an aspect of trauma has not been acknowledged and is then projected overtime from one generation to another. On the surface wounds may appear to heal, but the more Albin, Alda, and Áslaug unearth memories from their personal soul, the trauma of the collective psyche is illuminated. They come to know that to begin the process of healing, they must dig up and listen to the ancient stories of psyche: ancestral soul memories which live under the ground of their home country, Ireland: Éireann.
