Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... human consciousness in contradictory directions : toward heroic self- realization , on the one hand , and into the fear , guilt , and despair resulting from failure , on the other . The gods both reveal and occlude that which they ...
... human consciousness in contradictory directions : toward heroic self- realization , on the one hand , and into the fear , guilt , and despair resulting from failure , on the other . The gods both reveal and occlude that which they ...
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... human nature . Since this study was wholly composed in coffee shops , I would like to thank the staff of the Terrace Lounge at the University , where I spent many productive mornings , and the staff at the several coffee shops around ...
... human nature . Since this study was wholly composed in coffee shops , I would like to thank the staff of the Terrace Lounge at the University , where I spent many productive mornings , and the staff at the several coffee shops around ...
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... human to stand as the ultimate Ground of Being , the imagina- tion took another leap , and replaced one order of mythical powers with an- other . If myth is , as the mind's search for the absolute , a primitive science , science at its ...
... human to stand as the ultimate Ground of Being , the imagina- tion took another leap , and replaced one order of mythical powers with an- other . If myth is , as the mind's search for the absolute , a primitive science , science at its ...
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... human thought , though the fate of Narcissus , to drown in his own reflections , is not the only solution.2 The self cannot , as Dewey remarked , find its unity in itself alone , but must achieve this unity only in transcending itself ...
... human thought , though the fate of Narcissus , to drown in his own reflections , is not the only solution.2 The self cannot , as Dewey remarked , find its unity in itself alone , but must achieve this unity only in transcending itself ...
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... human organism uses all the forces of nature instinctively , as other organisms do , but in that breach between representation and act the human mind has created a second body ; that is , a body of signifiers , designed at first merely ...
... human organism uses all the forces of nature instinctively , as other organisms do , but in that breach between representation and act the human mind has created a second body ; that is , a body of signifiers , designed at first merely ...
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