| Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis Contributor(s): Jung, C. G. (Author), Kerényi, Carl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0691017565 ISBN-13: 9780691017563 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1969 Annotation: This introduction to the interior world of mythic consciousness has gone through many popular editions and become a classic point of reference for students of Greek religion as well as the depth psychology. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Behaviorism - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis |
| Dewey: 291.13 |
| LCCN: 76088547 |
| Series: Bollingen Series |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 5.53" W x 8.46" (0.50 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Kerényi, who has been called the most psychological of mythologists, and C. G. Jung, who has been called the most mythological of psychologists. Kerényi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the Kore (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Jung contributes a psychological commentary on each essay. Both men hoped, through their collaboration, to elevate the study of mythology to the status of a science. In The Primordial Child in Primordial Times Kerényi treats the child-God as an enduring and significant figure in Greek, Norse, Finnish, Etruscan, and Judeo-Christian mythology. He discusses the Kore as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jung speaks of the Divine Child and the Maiden as living psychological realities that provide continuing meaning in people's lives. The investigations of C. Kerényi are continued in a later study, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Princeton). |