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The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Volume 68, Issue 5, Page 807-827, November 2023., 2023 Abstract The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it.
Reginald Ajuonuma
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Modern Theology, Volume 38, Issue 2, Page 204-219, April 2022., 2022 Abstract This essay asks in what ways modern (i.e. twentieth‐century) philosophy can either make use of Origen or inform our reading of him. It argues in the first section that the predominantly exegetic method of Origen makes it difficult for analytic philosophy to accommodate his reasoning.
Mark J. Edwards
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The Relevance of the Carnivalesque in the Québec Novel
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 1984 The Bakhtinian concept of space is topological rather than topographic, and encompasses the cosmic, the social and the corporeal; its function in the Québec novel consists in debasing the hierarchical verticality of Lent and of the "official feast." As ...
Maroussia Ahmed
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Germany: Myth and Apologia in Christa Wolf's Novel Medea. Voices [PDF]
, 2004 In 1995, Christa Wolf, the most eminent author of the former German Democratic Republic, published the novel Medea. Voices. It takes up themes which have been worked and re-worked in European literature since Euripides tragedy, and which go back into pre-
Lu, Y
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El mito del pishtaco en Lituma en los Andes de Mario Vargas Llosa [PDF]
, 2013 the myth of pishtaco plays an important role in the Vargas Llosa’s novel, not just as character but also in the plot’s structure. The paper aims to analyze the relation between the narrative techniques used in the novel and the social function of the ...
Bortoluzzi, Manfredi
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«…come uno che ha gettato via gli oggetti delle purificazioni, senza volgere gli occhi». Liminarità e impurità nel mondo greco [PDF]
, 2017 The aim of this paper is to focus on some cultic features related to liminal space in the Greek world. Through the use of literary and iconographical sources, I try to analyze ritual dynamics and meanings connected to offerings for
Carboni Romina
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American and British Studies Annual, 2020 This article aims to examine several short stories of W. Somerset Maugham in terms of ironic victimization. Northrop Frye’s claim that a pharmakos or a scapegoat is a typical ironic victim inspired my idea of dissecting a number of characters in Maugham’
Maria Klečková
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Inscriptions, 2020 In murals depicting prominent figures as martyrs AFK has reconnected the emerging form of street-art to art's ability to maintain our relation to the sacred.
Inscriptions editorial team
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René Girard and Philosophy: An Interview with Paul Dumouchel [PDF]
, 2017 What was René Girard’s attitude towards philosophy? What philosophers influenced him? What stance did he take in the philosophical debates of his time? What are the philosophical questions raised by René Girard’s anthropology?
Dumouchel, Paul, Wilmes, Andreas
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International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, September 2025.ABSTRACT A previous paper described and challenged Girard's extensive revisions and rejections of psychoanalytic ideas, further elucidating some of his egregious misunderstandings and erroneous claims. This paper continues by dissecting his problematic claims about religion, especially his dubious insistence that Christian revelation is the only ...
Jerry S. Piven
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