Category Archives: Myth
Lez Get “Real” (“Psychologizing or Seeing-through‘”)
“The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stands this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”[1] The above quote from mythologist Joseph Campbell’s The … Continue reading
Heaven: Many Hints, One Hypothesis (“Paging Dr. Hawking”)
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Perhaps the most distinguished … Continue reading
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Reverence for Life (“Ethical Fundamentalism”)
Last week’s post attempted to place us inside the Chauvet caves in France so that we might once again stand awestruck, surrounded on all sides by thirty thousand year-old cave paintings and the ultimate mystery they represent. The way of the animal … Continue reading
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The Way of the Animal Powers (“Cave of Forgotten Dreams”)
One of the main aims of these Mythfire posts is to suggest that much of what we think we know and believe to be true is connected not so much to “truth” and “knowledge” per se but rather to our … Continue reading
Posted in Art/Creativity, Cinema, Depth Psychology, Myth
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The Royal Wedding (“Coniunctio & Wholeness”)
One of the central concepts in analytical psychology is that of the coniunctio, a Latin term meaning conjunction or union. In essence the idea is this: instead of striving to achieve some elevated form of perfection, i.e. in our personality, … Continue reading
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