Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... any of them ? But as I began teaching the course the myths took hold of me as living presences , insisting on their meaning even when they eluded adequate expla- nations of that meaning . The numinous force of myths Introduction.
... any of them ? But as I began teaching the course the myths took hold of me as living presences , insisting on their meaning even when they eluded adequate expla- nations of that meaning . The numinous force of myths Introduction.
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Norman Austin. nations of that meaning . The numinous force of myths both intimidated the search for their meaning and made the search more imperative . Like our pri- vate dreams , myths drift into shape from who knows what depths of our ...
Norman Austin. nations of that meaning . The numinous force of myths both intimidated the search for their meaning and made the search more imperative . Like our pri- vate dreams , myths drift into shape from who knows what depths of our ...
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Norman Austin. argue that the smolt are swept downstream mindlessly , carried by the force of gravity . But on its ... forces of nature instinctively , as other organisms do , but in that breach between representation and act the human ...
Norman Austin. argue that the smolt are swept downstream mindlessly , carried by the force of gravity . But on its ... forces of nature instinctively , as other organisms do , but in that breach between representation and act the human ...
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... forces or laws of nature in the cryptic equations of science , but there is more to gravity than its mathematical ... force realizes those impressions in its own forms , as images , symbols , and ideas . The imagination projects , for ...
... forces or laws of nature in the cryptic equations of science , but there is more to gravity than its mathematical ... force realizes those impressions in its own forms , as images , symbols , and ideas . The imagination projects , for ...
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... forces of nature , autonomous and arbitrary . But the gods of myth , who wear human faces , despite all prohibitions against seeing or naming them , are also projections of our idealized selves , which , like all ideals , are as ...
... forces of nature , autonomous and arbitrary . But the gods of myth , who wear human faces , despite all prohibitions against seeing or naming them , are also projections of our idealized selves , which , like all ideals , are as ...
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