Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... 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 town ...
... 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 town ...
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... nature , for social structures , ethics , and the dynamics of the individual psyche . The student of myth must , sooner or later , become a cosmologist since every myth both presupposes and illustrates a cosmology , as every fact ...
... nature , for social structures , ethics , and the dynamics of the individual psyche . The student of myth must , sooner or later , become a cosmologist since every myth both presupposes and illustrates a cosmology , as every fact ...
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... nature to regenerate and reproduce themselves . Biology , arresting entropy if only provisionally , introduces teleology into the world . Inanimate matter has only a history , but even the humblest biological organism has a destiny ...
... nature to regenerate and reproduce themselves . Biology , arresting entropy if only provisionally , introduces teleology into the world . Inanimate matter has only a history , but even the humblest biological organism has a destiny ...
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... nature ; but then , by happy accident , or inspiration , schooled to transcend the body of nature . Language was at first , no doubt , a tool like any other for working more efficiently on matter . But humans then found in their ...
... nature ; but then , by happy accident , or inspiration , schooled to transcend the body of nature . Language was at first , no doubt , a tool like any other for working more efficiently on matter . But humans then found in their ...
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... nature in the cryptic equations of science , but there is more to gravity than its mathematical formula . We experience gravity ; it impinges on our consciousness every day in manifold ways . Just as the physics of light does not ...
... nature in the cryptic equations of science , but there is more to gravity than its mathematical formula . We experience gravity ; it impinges on our consciousness every day in manifold ways . Just as the physics of light does not ...
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