Essays on a Science of Mythology

By C.G. Jung

Book Overview

Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Ker?nyi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been called "the most mythological of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691017565
• ISBN13: 9780691017563
• Release Date: October 1969
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Archetypal Development of the Child in Mythological and Psychological Theory

From back cover: "This joint work on two central themes in mythology and in the human unconscious by a great psychologist and a great classical scholar originally appeared in German in 1940-41. First established in English in 1949, this 'introduction' to mythology as a science has gone through several editions and has become a classic in both fields. C. Kerenyi (1897-1973), a Hungarian classicist who lived in Switzerland, has contributed monographs on the Primordial Child in Primordial Times and on the Kore, or Maiden Goddess, together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. C.G. Jung, the Swiss founder of analytical psychology, who died in 1961 at the age of 86, amplifies these archetypal themes with essays on the Psychology of the Child Archetype and the Psychological Aspects of the Kore. 'There is an abundance of interesting and occasionally suggestive detail ... and beyond all this there is the undeniable importance and fascination of the question of the archetypes which Jung puts before us' - Philip Wheelwright, 'The Swanee Review' The two myths-theme meet in the Mysteries of Eleusis, when, in Kerenyi's interpretation, the mother-daughter goddess bears a divine child. He continues his investigations in a later study, 'Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter'" -

Jaspers, Stekel, Adler, Freud, Jung...???

Certainly not to "praise great men," which is anathema to me, but to trace and track the "development of psychology." That is why I have observed its serpentine journey throughout history, slinking as far back as Heraclitus, now rising up into the Aquarian Age, right through Pisces, which brings us to the next development in psychology, Archetypal Psychology, as presented by James Hillman, Jung's worthy successor, which leads the "pupil" for "dominating spirit" to "receptive soul" and beyond, or below, to an ultimately gracious union of the two. At the end of this book by the two Carls, Kerenyi says, "Miracle DO happen in Eleusis," and Eleusis, like Utopia, like the Realm of the Mothers, like the Spirit Realm, is DOWN, the very direction in which Hillman points, always, as does Joseph Campbell, e.g., "If you are falling...DIVE!"