Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... consciousness , consciousness realized in consciousness , and consciousness realized in the world . " Austin's prose is as lively and engaging as it is accurate and rigorous , a combination that is rare in scholarly writing . " - John ...
... consciousness , consciousness realized in consciousness , and consciousness realized in the world . " Austin's prose is as lively and engaging as it is accurate and rigorous , a combination that is rare in scholarly writing . " - John ...
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... consciousness we are faced with two alternatives : either to dismiss them as quaint superstitions or to receive them as the distillates of our ancestors ' wisdom . Myths , protean themselves , demand a like agility in their students . I ...
... consciousness we are faced with two alternatives : either to dismiss them as quaint superstitions or to receive them as the distillates of our ancestors ' wisdom . Myths , protean themselves , demand a like agility in their students . I ...
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... consciousness without the consciousness of the Other . Lacan put the problem in another way : the individual self must find itself through the network of signifiers , which , being already culturally deter- mined , are in the field of ...
... consciousness without the consciousness of the Other . Lacan put the problem in another way : the individual self must find itself through the network of signifiers , which , being already culturally deter- mined , are in the field of ...
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... consciousness . Homo sapiens gave up an instinct finely tuned to its immediate environment for an intellect capable ... consciousness , appear- ing first in myth as the density and inertia of the earth element , and by slow degrees ...
... consciousness . Homo sapiens gave up an instinct finely tuned to its immediate environment for an intellect capable ... consciousness , appear- ing first in myth as the density and inertia of the earth element , and by slow degrees ...
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... consciousness every day in manifold ways . Just as the physics of light does not express our experience of light , so Newton's laws cannot give us our experience of gravity . For our experience of the forces of nature we turn to art ...
... consciousness every day in manifold ways . Just as the physics of light does not express our experience of light , so Newton's laws cannot give us our experience of gravity . For our experience of the forces of nature we turn to art ...
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