Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... Mind III . The Serpent in the Garden 4 Herakles : The Hero of the Anima I. The Paradigm II . The Hero 5 The Divine Presence in the Iliad 6 Hamlet's Hungry Ghost 7 The Empirical Stranger 8 The Universal Self Notes Bibliography Index xi 1 ...
... Mind III . The Serpent in the Garden 4 Herakles : The Hero of the Anima I. The Paradigm II . The Hero 5 The Divine Presence in the Iliad 6 Hamlet's Hungry Ghost 7 The Empirical Stranger 8 The Universal Self Notes Bibliography Index xi 1 ...
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... mind's search for the absolute , a primitive science , science at its farthest reach circles around again to myth . Myth purports to offer an adequate explanation for everything — for the elements and laws of nature , for social ...
... mind's search for the absolute , a primitive science , science at its farthest reach circles around again to myth . Myth purports to offer an adequate explanation for everything — for the elements and laws of nature , for social ...
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... mind is to achieve an absolute unity , and even an identity , with the world , we can track the same process from the opposite direction . The second intuition underlying this study , which is but the primary intuition seen from the ...
... mind is to achieve an absolute unity , and even an identity , with the world , we can track the same process from the opposite direction . The second intuition underlying this study , which is but the primary intuition seen from the ...
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... mind of Achilles , and sympathize with the anguish of an animal netted in his own signifiers and discovering , too late , the missing subject . The salmon's feat of engineering we call instinct , because here the form and function are ...
... mind of Achilles , and sympathize with the anguish of an animal netted in his own signifiers and discovering , too late , the missing subject . The salmon's feat of engineering we call instinct , because here the form and function are ...
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... mind , I find myself drawn to terms like Plato's Forms or Jung's archetypes , while mindful that such terms may raise as many questions as they answer . Though Freud's hypotheses have been very influential on my thought — who , after ...
... mind , I find myself drawn to terms like Plato's Forms or Jung's archetypes , while mindful that such terms may raise as many questions as they answer . Though Freud's hypotheses have been very influential on my thought — who , after ...
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