The Myth Of Analysis

Author : James Hillman
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0810116510

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The Myth of Analysis by James Hillman Pdf

In this work, acclaimed Jungian James Hillman examines the concepts of myth, insights, eros, body, and the mytheme of female inferiority, as well as the need for the freedom to imagine and to feel psychic reality. By examining these ideas, and the role they have played both in and outside of the therapeutic setting, Hillman mounts a compelling argument that, rather than locking them away in some inner asylum or subjecting them to daily self-treatment, man's "peculiarities" can become an integral part of a rich and fulfilling daily life. Originally published by Northwestern University Press in 1972, this work had a profound impact on a nation emerging self-aware from the 1960s, as well as on the era's burgeoning feminist movement. It remains a profound critique of therapy and the psychological viewpoint, and it is one of Hillman's most important and enduring works.

Author : C. G. Jung
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780691214016

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Jung on Mythology by C. G. Jung Pdf

At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume collects and organizes the key passages on myth by Jung himself and by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, and James Hillman. The book synthesizes the discovery of myth as a way of thinking, where it becomes a therapeutic tool providing an entrance to the unconscious. In the first selections, Jung begins to differentiate his theory from Freud's by asserting that there are fantasies and dreams of an "impersonal" nature that cannot be reduced to experiences in a person's past. Jung then asserts that the similarities among myths are the result of the projection of the collective rather than the personal unconscious onto the external world. Finally, he comes to the conclusion that myth originates and functions to satisfy the psychological need for contact with the unconscious--not merely to announce the existence of the unconscious, but to let us experience it.

Author : Robert A. Segal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000163261

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Myth Analyzed by Robert A. Segal Pdf

Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities. This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, philosophy, religious studies, and literature. Each discipline advocates a generalization about the origin, the function, and the subject matter of myth. The subject is always not what makes any myth distinct but what makes all myths "myth". The book is divided into five sections, covering topics such as myth and psychoanalysis, hero myths, myth and science, myth and politics, and myth and the physical world. Chapters engage with an array of theorists--among them, Freud, Jung, Campbell, Rank, Winnicott, Tylor, Frazer, Malinowski, Levy-Bruhl, Levi-Strauss, Harrison, and Burkert. The book considers whether myth still plays a role in our lives is one of the issues considered, showing that myths arise anything but spontaneously. They are the result of a specific need, which varies from theory to theory. This is a fascinating survey by a leading voice in the study of myth. As such, it will be of much interest to scholars of myth and how it interacts with Sociology, Anthropology, Politics and Economics.

Author : Tudor Balinisteanu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443816205

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Narrative, Social Myth and Reality in Contemporary Scottish and Irish Women’s Writing by Tudor Balinisteanu Pdf

This book offers an original interdisciplinary analysis of the relations between myth, identity and social reality, involving elements of narratology theory, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology and social theory, harnessed to support an argument firmly located in the area of literary criticism. This analysis yields a fairly extensive reinterpretation of the concept of myth, which is applied to the examination of the relationship between narrative and social reality as represented in texts by contemporary Scottish and Irish women writers. The main theoretical sources are Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia, Jacques Derrida’s theories of citationality and Judith Butler’s theories of subjectivity. The analysis framework developed in the book uses these theories to create a new way of understanding how literary texts change readers’ worldviews by enticing them to accept alternative possibilities of cultural expression of identity and social order. The texts analysed in this book reconfigure naturalised stories that have become normative and constraining in conveying identities and visions of legitimate social orders. The book’s focus on feminine identities places it alongside feminist analyses of reconstructions of fairy tales, myths or canonical stories that establish what counts as legitimate feminine identity. Studied here for the first time together, the writers whose texts form the interest of this book continue the revisionist work begun by other women writers who engage with the male generated literary, philosophical and humanist tradition. They share a view of narratives as tools for continually negotiating our identities, social worlds and socialisation scenarios. While the high-level theoretical discourse of the first part of the book requires specialised knowledge, the second part of the book, offering close readings of the texts, is both lively and accessible and should engage the interest of the general reader and academic alike. This book is written for all those who are interested in the power words have to hold sway over our inner and outer (social) worlds.

Author : Jenna Reinbold
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812293586

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Seeing the Myth in Human Rights by Jenna Reinbold Pdf

The 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been called one of the most powerful documents in human history. Today, the mere accusation of violations of the rights outlined in this document cows political leaders and riles the international community. Yet as a nonbinding document with no mechanism for enforcement, it holds almost no legal authority. Indeed, since its adoption, the Declaration's authority has been portrayed not as legal or political but as moral. Rather than providing a set of rules to follow or laws to obey, it represents a set of standards against which the world's societies are measured. It has achieved a level of rhetorical power and influence unlike anything else in modern world politics, becoming the foundational myth of the human rights project. Seeing the Myth in Human Rights presents an interdisciplinary investigation into the role of mythmaking in the creation and propagation of the Universal Declaration. Pushing beyond conventional understandings of myth, which tend to view such narratives as vehicles either for the spreading of particular religious dogmas or for the spreading of erroneous, even duplicitous, discourses, Jenna Reinbold mobilizes a robust body of scholarship within the field of religious studies to help us appreciate myth as a mode of human labor designed to generate meaning, solidarity, and order. This usage does not merely parallel today's scholarship on myth; it dovetails in unexpected ways with a burgeoning body of scholarship on the origin and function of contemporary human rights, and it puts the field of religious studies into conversation with the fields of political philosophy, critical legal studies, and human rights historiography. For Reinbold, myth is a phenomenon that is not merely germane to the exploration of specific religious narratives but is key to a broader understanding of the nature of political authority in the modern world.

Author : Rodrigo Aguilera
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912248810

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The Glass Half-Empty by Rodrigo Aguilera Pdf

Despite the doom and gloom of financial crises, global terrorism, climate collapse, and the rise of the far-right, a number of leading intellectuals (Steven Pinker, Hans Rosling, Johan Norberg, and Matt Ridley, among others) have been arguing in recent years that the world is getting better and better. But this “progress narrative” is little more than a very conservative defence of the capitalist status quo. At a time when liberal democracy appears incapable of stemming the tide of the far-right populism, and when laissez-faire capitalism is ill-equipped to deal with socio-economic problems like climate change, inequality, and the future of wok, the real advocates of progress are those willing to challenge these established paradigms. The Glass Half-Empty argues that, without criticising the systems of capitalism, the changes needed to make a better world will always fall short of our expectations. The "progress narrative" needs to be challenged before we stumble into a potentially catastrophic future, despite having the means to build a truly better world.

Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 0815322607

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Structuralism in Myth by Robert Alan Segal Pdf

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jonathan Miles-Watson,Vivian Asimos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350082267

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The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth by Jonathan Miles-Watson,Vivian Asimos Pdf

What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory of myth. Key features include: - a general introduction to the reader that outlines a comparative and interpretative framework - an introduction contextualizing each part and sub-section - an introduction to each reading by the editors - a companion website that provides discussion questions and further reading suggestions, including primary sources. From functionalism to feminism, nationalism to globalization, and psychoanalysis to spatial analysis, this reader covers the classic and contemporary theories and approaches needed to understand what myth is, why myths exist, what they do, and what the future holds for them.

Author : R. Howells
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230510845

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The Myth of the Titanic by R. Howells Pdf

The first critical analysis of the Titanic as modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics . The first was the physical Titanic , the rusting remains of which can still be found twelve thousand feet below the north Atlantic. The second is the mythical Titanic which emerged just as its tangible predecessor slipped from view on 15 April 1912. It is the second of the two Titanics which remains the more interesting and which continues to carry cultural resonances today. The Myth of the Titanic begins with the launching of the 'unsinkable ship' and ends with the outbreak of the 'war to end all wars'. It provides an insight into the particular culture of late-Edwardian Britain and beyond this draws far greater conclusions about the complex relationship between myth, history, popular culture and society as a whole.

Author : Kreft, Jan,Kuczamer-K?opotowska, Sylwia,Kalinowska-?ele?nik, Anna
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781522591023

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Myth in Modern Media Management and Marketing by Kreft, Jan,Kuczamer-K?opotowska, Sylwia,Kalinowska-?ele?nik, Anna Pdf

The development of communication technology and the proliferation of centers that collect, interpret, and transmit information does not mean that communities have become a more transparent and enlightened environment. If anything, the pioneering research of modern communication signifies the ambiguity of individual and collective existence. Myth in Modern Media Management and Marketing is an essential reference source that discusses the analysis of the role of myth and mythical thinking in the operation of media organizations and their functioning on the media market. Featuring research on topics such as social media, brand management, and advertising, this book is ideally designed for social media analysts, media specialists, public relations managers, media managers, marketers, advertisers, students, researchers, and professionals involved with media and new media management.

Author : Robert Withers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781134570331

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Controversies in Analytical Psychology by Robert Withers Pdf

Picks up on divisions within the area of analytical psychology and explores many of the most hotly contested issues, with a group of leading international Jungian authors contributing papers from contrasting perspectives.

Author : Ulwyn L. Pierre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135671860

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The Myth of Black Corporate Mobility by Ulwyn L. Pierre Pdf

First Published in 1999. Part of the Financial Sector of the American Economy series, this book addresses one much needed change in the corporate arena—the continuing inequality of opportunities for success that blacks experience relative to their similarly qualified white peers.

Author : Antoine Vergote
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 906186903X

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Psychoanalysis, Phenomenological Anthropology and Religion by Antoine Vergote Pdf

Author : Eleazar M. Meletinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 517 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135599065

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The Poetics of Myth by Eleazar M. Meletinsky Pdf

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lowell Edmunds
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421414188

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Approaches to Greek Myth by Lowell Edmunds Pdf

Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations.