Description: Meaning and Being in Myth, Paperback by Austin, Norman, ISBN 0271028238, ISBN-13 9780271028231, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meanings imposed upon Being by culturally determined signifiers. The primary signifiers in myth (the gods), as projections of contradictory meanings, impel human consciousness in contradictory directions: toward heroic self-realization, on the one hand, and into the fear, guilt, and despair resulting from failure, on the other. The gods both reveal and occlude that which they signify&;the signified; ultimately, Being itself. Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger, as examples of the power of mythical archetypes to reveal and occlude Being, even when the apparatus of gods has been excluded. Despite their pessimism, ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble. Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth, religion, and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness, consciousness realized in consciousness, and consciousness realized in the world.
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Book Title: Meaning and Being in Myth
Number of Pages: 252 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Meaning and Being in Myth
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Publication Year: 1990
Subject: Movements / Existentialism, Folklore & Mythology, Ancient & Classical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Norman Austin
Item Width: 6 in
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