Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... alienation . Even Narcissus , who imagines that he can find himself without hazarding himself in the field of the Other , is doomed to find only empty images of himself , and on the very face of the Other that he had shunned . The self ...
... alienation . Even Narcissus , who imagines that he can find himself without hazarding himself in the field of the Other , is doomed to find only empty images of himself , and on the very face of the Other that he had shunned . The self ...
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... alienation , the vacuity at the center of his being , is a more terrible fate than the fate of the ancient tragic heroes who , even in the abyss , did not sever their I - Thou rela- tions with the world . I was struck by the presence of ...
... alienation , the vacuity at the center of his being , is a more terrible fate than the fate of the ancient tragic heroes who , even in the abyss , did not sever their I - Thou rela- tions with the world . I was struck by the presence of ...
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... alienation , tramples the covenant underfoot , and is left a prisoner of his own fear and anger . Great indeed is the temptation to curse the Ground of Being . Consciousness is a small voice swallowed up in a void indifferent , it seems ...
... alienation , tramples the covenant underfoot , and is left a prisoner of his own fear and anger . Great indeed is the temptation to curse the Ground of Being . Consciousness is a small voice swallowed up in a void indifferent , it seems ...
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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