Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... field find some of my observations com- monplace , I trust that they will be sympathetic , remembering the polarities inherent in myth , and that they will find , among the commonplaces , specu- lation worthy of a scholar . James ...
... field find some of my observations com- monplace , I trust that they will be sympathetic , remembering the polarities inherent in myth , and that they will find , among the commonplaces , specu- lation worthy of a scholar . James ...
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Norman Austin. Introduction The gods belong to the field of the real . -Jacques Lacan1 Severa everal years ago , when I was asked to teach the departmental mythology course , I accepted the assignment with some misgivings , uncertain ...
Norman Austin. Introduction The gods belong to the field of the real . -Jacques Lacan1 Severa everal years ago , when I was asked to teach the departmental mythology course , I accepted the assignment with some misgivings , uncertain ...
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... field of the Other . Thus the self discovers itself only in 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 ...
... field of the Other . Thus the self discovers itself only in 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 ...
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... 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 the divine . The great religions concur that the god that can be named is not God . The ...
... 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 the divine . The great religions concur that the god that can be named is not God . The ...
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... field has been cleared of the ancient gods . Hamlet stands midway , in this respect , between ancient literary works , which employ the machinery of myth without embarrassment , and an existentialist novel like The Stranger , from which ...
... field has been cleared of the ancient gods . Hamlet stands midway , in this respect , between ancient literary works , which employ the machinery of myth without embarrassment , and an existentialist novel like The Stranger , from which ...
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