Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... signifiers . The primary signifiers in 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 fear , guilt ...
... signifiers . The primary signifiers in 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 fear , guilt ...
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... signifiers issuing from our modern academies , Jane Brown's studio in Oakland was a haven where I learned , through movement , a deeper integration of thought and being . To William Mullen I owe special thanks , a colleague and friend ...
... signifiers issuing from our modern academies , Jane Brown's studio in Oakland was a haven where I learned , through movement , a deeper integration of thought and being . To William Mullen I owe special thanks , a colleague and friend ...
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... signifiers and the subject from Lacan . A think- er's thoughts , once coined , become common currency . Abstract terms , espe- cially those referring to the domain of the psyche , resist succinct definition , but I trust that my uses of ...
... signifiers and the subject from Lacan . A think- er's thoughts , once coined , become common currency . Abstract terms , espe- cially those referring to the domain of the psyche , resist succinct definition , but I trust that my uses of ...
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... signifiers , which , being already culturally deter- mined , are in the field of the Other . Thus the self discovers itself only in alienation . Even Narcissus , who imagines that he can find himself without hazarding himself in the ...
... signifiers , which , being already culturally deter- mined , are in the field of the Other . Thus the self discovers itself only in alienation . Even Narcissus , who imagines that he can find himself without hazarding himself in the ...
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... signifiers and discovering , too late , the missing subject . The salmon's feat of engineering we call instinct , because here the form and function are so closely synchronized as to allow almost no interval , as Bergson puts it ...
... signifiers and discovering , too late , the missing subject . The salmon's feat of engineering we call instinct , because here the form and function are so closely synchronized as to allow almost no interval , as Bergson puts it ...
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