Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... gods ) , as projections of contradictory meanings , impel human consciousness in contradictory directions : toward heroic self- realization , on the one hand , and into the fear , guilt , and despair resulting from failure , on the ...
... gods ) , as projections of contradictory meanings , impel human consciousness in contradictory directions : toward heroic self- realization , on the one hand , and into the fear , guilt , and despair resulting from failure , on the ...
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... gods . The gods sent me three mentors in my youth , whose influence on my career I would like to acknowledge here : Mr. Gordon Martin , my first Latin master , whose first class in beginning Latin remains vivid in my memory almost forty ...
... gods . The gods sent me three mentors in my youth , whose influence on my career I would like to acknowledge here : Mr. Gordon Martin , my first Latin master , whose first class in beginning Latin remains vivid in my memory almost forty ...
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Norman Austin. Introduction The gods belong to the field of the real . -Jacques Lacan1 Severa everal years ago , when I ... god , the solar hero , myth as allegory , myth as a disease of language — each theory seemed cogent in its time ...
Norman Austin. Introduction The gods belong to the field of the real . -Jacques Lacan1 Severa everal years ago , when I ... god , the solar hero , myth as allegory , myth as a disease of language — each theory seemed cogent in its time ...
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... gods stand guard to prohibit the ego from trespassing its limits , and thus mark the ego's terrible alienation from Being . But the function of the gods is not only punitive . The gods also are the signifiers that bridge the chasm ...
... gods stand guard to prohibit the ego from trespassing its limits , and thus mark the ego's terrible alienation from Being . But the function of the gods is not only punitive . The gods also are the signifiers that bridge the chasm ...
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... god that can be named is not God . The numinous archetypes are the ground of all Being , but the gods are their im- ages , mere icons at best . To mistake the icon for the archetype is to confuse the figure with the ground , the ...
... god that can be named is not God . The numinous archetypes are the ground of all Being , but the gods are their im- ages , mere icons at best . To mistake the icon for the archetype is to confuse the figure with the ground , the ...
Contents
The Numinous Ground | 11 |
Jobs Noble Euphemism | 31 |
Hesiods Archaic Cosmology | 49 |
Pandora and the Revenge of the Mind | 65 |
The Serpent in the Garden | 85 |
Herakles The Hero of the Anima | 109 |
The Hero | 112 |
The Divine Presence in Homers Iliad | 135 |
Hamlets Hungry Ghost | 153 |
The Empirical Stranger | 173 |
The Universal Self | 193 |
Notes | 197 |
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Achilles Adversary Agamemnon alienation ancient myths anger Apollo archetypal Athena becomes biological birth Book of Job calls chaos demon Chryses combat consciousness corpse cosmology created cult curse death Deianeira Delphi desire discovers dragon dream earth ego's emotions enemy epiphany euphemism Euripides Eurystheus evil father fear Fontenrose 1959 Freud function Gaia ghost God's Greek ground Hamlet Hera Hera's Herakles hero hero's Hesiod Hesiod's myth Homer's honor human I-Thou ideal Iliad imagination intuition Iphitos Job's Jung killed king Lacan Leviathan libido living Māyā meaning Meursault mind mode modern mother murder mythical narcissism nature negate Neleus neocortex numinous object Olympians Olympos Omphale Pandora play poem Priam Prometheus psyche Python reveals revenge sacrifice Satan says sciousness serpent signifiers sky gods smile snake Sophocles soul superego tabu takes Theogony thought tion trans transcending translates Typhon unconscious University Press vision warrior wife women Zeus