Myths of manhood : the hero in Jungian literature
Material type: TextSeries: (Sydney Studies in Religion)Sydney, Australia University Printing Service, University of Sydney c2001Description: 191p.; bibliog. notes; bibliogContent type:- text
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Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, "A dance in death: the hero and male initiation in Jungian mythology.
1 Jung and the sun hero. 2 The classical Jungians. 3 The antihero. 4 Myths of manhood. 5 Campbell's monomyth. Conclusions
'...explores the place of the hero in contemporary culture by focusing on the relationship between hero myths and male rites of passage. He argues that the hero is the central mythic figure of Western culture, and that the hero of the West can tell us much about how we make men, today as three thousand years ago. This analysis is applied to perhaps the most important group of writings about hero myths in the last century: those of the Jungians. Carl Jung and his followers, especially Joseph Campbell and Robert Bly, wove a modern myth of psychological transformation based on the idea of life as a hero's quest. Now anyone--young or old, man or woman--could be a hero, in their own mind at least. Does this represent a new phase in the hero's long career, or is it just recycling an outdated mythology?'
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