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Author Hollis, James, 1940-

Title Tracking the gods : the place of myth in modern life / James Hollis
Published Toronto : Inner City Books, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (160 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts ; 68
Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts ; 68.
Contents Introduction: Because being here amounts to so much:The services to myth (The cosmological question ; The metaphysical question ; The sociological question ; The psychological question) -- Differing approaches to myth -- The rag-and-bone shop of the heart: The mythos of modernism -- The modern sensibility (How Faust became "Faustian" ; The underground man ; In the heart of darkness ; Czech mate ; After the fall) -- The eternal return and the heroic quest: Eternal return: sacrifice, death and rebirth -- The journey of the hero (The heroic journey ; The psychological meaning of the journey) -- Eating the sun: The spontaneous generation of myth (The iron butterfly ; In a dark wood ; Eating the sun) -- Tracking the gods: The mystery we call God -- Adrift on the cosmic sea -- The gods astir: a mythic interlude: Liebestod variations (Admetis and Alcestis ; Philemon and Baucis ; Dido and Aeneas ; Glaucus ; Idomeneus ; Marsyas) -- Mystic chords of memory: The better angels of our nature -- Individuation and relationship -- Afterword: Heart-work on all of the images
Summary "Illustrates how myths reflect the archetypal roots of our personal psychology, and explains how ancient drives influence and often dominate our behavior"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-154) and index
Notes English
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Subject Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.
SUBJECT Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961 fast
Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. nli
Subject Myth -- Psychological aspects
Jungian psychology.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Jungian psychology
Myth -- Psychological aspects
Mythos
Moderne
Mitos.
Myth -- Psychological aspects.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585177015
9780585177014