Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... experiences a curious ambiva- lence , wondering whether the material is directed primarily to children , or whether it is too sophisticated for children . The squabbles on Mt. Olympos may seem quite infantile , but what of the ...
... experiences a curious ambiva- lence , wondering whether the material is directed primarily to children , or whether it is too sophisticated for children . The squabbles on Mt. Olympos may seem quite infantile , but what of the ...
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... experience gravity ; it impinges on our 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 ...
... experience gravity ; it impinges on our 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 ...
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... experience . The gods I take to be the numinous powers that inhabit , and rule , this field . It follows that every numinous pres- ence is divine — here I follow the practice of the Romans , for whom the nu- minous was synonymous with ...
... experience . The gods I take to be the numinous powers that inhabit , and rule , this field . It follows that every numinous pres- ence is divine — here I follow the practice of the Romans , for whom the nu- minous was synonymous with ...
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... experience of itself in the world . The Book of Job and Camus ' The Stranger are counterbalanced in a pro- found symmetry of opposition . Job , engulfed in the vortex of the Other , will not betray his I - Thou covenant with the world ...
... experience of itself in the world . The Book of Job and Camus ' The Stranger are counterbalanced in a pro- found symmetry of opposition . Job , engulfed in the vortex of the Other , will not betray his I - Thou covenant with the world ...
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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