Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble . Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth , religion , and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness ...
... ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble . Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth , religion , and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness ...
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... ancient myth . Frazer's dying and rising corn god , the solar hero , myth as allegory , myth as a disease of language — each theory seemed cogent in its time , until a newer theorist arose to discount the more simplistic theories of his ...
... ancient myth . Frazer's dying and rising corn god , the solar hero , myth as allegory , myth as a disease of language — each theory seemed cogent in its time , until a newer theorist arose to discount the more simplistic theories of his ...
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... ancient atomists was as much a mythical concept as the Olympian gods . Like the Olympians , the atom was eternal , indestructible , and transcended sense perception ; like them , it could be apprehended by intuition alone . When the ...
... ancient atomists was as much a mythical concept as the Olympian gods . Like the Olympians , the atom was eternal , indestructible , and transcended sense perception ; like them , it could be apprehended by intuition alone . When the ...
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... ancient hero's quest for self - realization so very different from the salmon's ecstatic ascent to its birthplace , which , once achieved , becomes its burial ground ? If we admire Achilles more than the salmon , it is because we can ...
... ancient hero's quest for self - realization so very different from the salmon's ecstatic ascent to its birthplace , which , once achieved , becomes its burial ground ? If we admire Achilles more than the salmon , it is because we can ...
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... ancient heroes to their gods ? —yet I cannot believe that the icons of myth derive only from our individual , postnatal ex- periences . Each of our cells is a descendant of the first living cell , and even after millions of years of ...
... ancient heroes to their gods ? —yet I cannot believe that the icons of myth derive only from our individual , postnatal ex- periences . Each of our cells is a descendant of the first living cell , and even after millions of years of ...
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