Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... myth ( the gods ) , as projections of contradictory meanings , impel human consciousness in contradictory directions : toward heroic self- realization , on the one hand , and into the ... Myth This One BXR7 - ZNA. Meaning and Being in Myth.
... myth ( the gods ) , as projections of contradictory meanings , impel human consciousness in contradictory directions : toward heroic self- realization , on the one hand , and into the ... Myth This One BXR7 - ZNA. Meaning and Being in Myth.
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... Myths appeal to the juvenile in us , but to survive into literature they must also satisfy adult rea- son . Thus the treatment of myth calls for a certain nimble movement back and forth between infancy and adulthood . I have tried to be ...
... Myths appeal to the juvenile in us , but to survive into literature they must also satisfy adult rea- son . Thus the treatment of myth calls for a certain nimble movement back and forth between infancy and adulthood . I have tried to be ...
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... myth or through the thicket of modern theories on ancient myth . Frazer's dying and rising corn god , the solar hero , myth as allegory , myth as a disease of language — each theory seemed cogent in its time , until a newer theorist ...
... myth or through the thicket of modern theories on ancient myth . Frazer's dying and rising corn god , the solar hero , myth as allegory , myth as a disease of language — each theory seemed cogent in its time , until a newer theorist ...
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... mythical powers with an- other . If myth is , as the 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 ...
... mythical powers with an- other . If myth is , as the 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 ...
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