Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... matter has only a history , but even the humblest biological organism has a destiny . The mythologist can discern in the amoeba's probings the first intimations of the self tenuously realizing itself in the field of the Other . The ...
... matter has only a history , but even the humblest biological organism has a destiny . The mythologist can discern in the amoeba's probings the first intimations of the self tenuously realizing itself in the field of the Other . The ...
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... matter . But humans then found in their signifiers a thought- plasm , as it were , from which to fashion the metaphysical self , that gymnast balanced on the highwire between intellect and instinct.4 The impulse of the lowest organisms ...
... matter . But humans then found in their signifiers a thought- plasm , as it were , from which to fashion the metaphysical self , that gymnast balanced on the highwire between intellect and instinct.4 The impulse of the lowest organisms ...
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... matter , and energy . It is an error , in my view , to draw a rigid distinction between myth and science , and to dismiss the archaic Greeks as prescientific . while priding ourselves on our escape from mythical thinking . Myth and ...
... matter , and energy . It is an error , in my view , to draw a rigid distinction between myth and science , and to dismiss the archaic Greeks as prescientific . while priding ourselves on our escape from mythical thinking . Myth and ...
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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