Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... reveal and occlude that which they signify- the signified ; ultimately , Being itself . Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet , and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger , as examples of the power of ...
... reveal and occlude that which they signify- the signified ; ultimately , Being itself . Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet , and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger , as examples of the power of ...
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... revealed as too transparently 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 ...
... revealed as too transparently 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 ...
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... revealing itself in its most abstract form , as a property of mass . As humans arrive at consciousness only through participation in the world , so nature too moves toward consciousness through its participation in the devel- opment of ...
... revealing itself in its most abstract form , as a property of mass . As humans arrive at consciousness only through participation in the world , so nature too moves toward consciousness through its participation in the devel- opment of ...
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... revealed an even deeper stratum of mythical thought than the obvious folktale motifs in the drama . The voice in the whirlwind invokes Rahab , Behemoth , Leviathan , various names for the primordial antagonist . We have , in the Book of ...
... revealed an even deeper stratum of mythical thought than the obvious folktale motifs in the drama . The voice in the whirlwind invokes Rahab , Behemoth , Leviathan , various names for the primordial antagonist . We have , in the Book of ...
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... reveals , in his final confession , that he has created an inhuman cosmol- ogy to validate the vacuum in his own feelings , an unconscious universe to mirror back to him his own curse upon his consciousness . Meursault's trajec- tory in ...
... reveals , in his final confession , that he has created an inhuman cosmol- ogy to validate the vacuum in his own feelings , an unconscious universe to mirror back to him his own curse upon his consciousness . Meursault's trajec- tory in ...
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