Meaning and Being in MythPenn State Press, 2010 M11 1 |
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... thought , sufficient material left over from my research on the Odyssey to fill another volume . But my research in that sabbatical year followed its own wayward course . I trust that John S. Guggenheim , whose generous provisions ...
... thought , sufficient material left over from my research on the Odyssey to fill another volume . But my research in that sabbatical year followed its own wayward course . I trust that John S. Guggenheim , whose generous provisions ...
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... 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 such terms will be intelligible from their context ...
... 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 such terms will be intelligible from their context ...
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... thought , though the fate of Narcissus , to drown in his own reflections , is not the only solution.2 The self cannot , as Dewey remarked , find its unity in itself alone , but must achieve this unity only in transcending itself . Or ...
... thought , though the fate of Narcissus , to drown in his own reflections , is not the only solution.2 The self cannot , as Dewey remarked , find its unity in itself alone , but must achieve this unity only in transcending itself . Or ...
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... thought- plasm , as it were , from which to fashion the metaphysical self , that gymnast balanced on the highwire between intellect and instinct.4 The impulse of the lowest organisms shades into instinct in more complex organisms ...
... thought- plasm , as it were , from which to fashion the metaphysical self , that gymnast balanced on the highwire between intellect and instinct.4 The impulse of the lowest organisms shades into instinct in more complex organisms ...
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... thought — who , after reading Freud , can avoid seeing the dynamic conflict of ego , superego , and id in the relations of the ancient heroes to their gods ? —yet I cannot believe that the icons of myth derive only from our individual ...
... thought — who , after reading Freud , can avoid seeing the dynamic conflict of ego , superego , and id in the relations of the ancient heroes to their gods ? —yet I cannot believe that the icons of myth derive only from our individual ...
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