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A carregar... The Wisdom of the Serpent (1963)por Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) librisissimo | Feb 3, 2019 |  This is, ultimately, two books, one on psychology by Joseph Lewis Henderson and one on mythology by Maud Oakes. The latter is supposed to provide support for the former, but it can be read on its own. I'm not sure the former can be read at all, at least by ordinary mortals. Certainly it struck me as simply bizarre. Too many dreams, too little analytical data, and too few suggestions for something useful. To be sure, I'm not a psychologist. I picked up the book hoping it would help me to understand why people seem to be attracted to a certain type of story. I was looking specifically at tales with some similarity to what Joseph Campbell called "the monomyth." You won't find it here. I was eventually reduced to skimming the psychology section, desperately looking for something that made sense. I never did. The mythology section is better. I wish it had more background information, and I would quibble with the selection. But at least it gathers quite a few myths on topics such as resurrection. For that, it's a useful book. So I'd give the myths section perhaps three and a half stars (a good folklorist could surely have done better). The other gets at most two. If you still want to read it, I'd suggest trying the myths first; they might make it easier to understand the other. (  )1  waltzmn | Apr 9, 2014 |  Budzul | May 31, 2008 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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