in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes as the babyHermes tries to talk his way out of his predicament.)Ĭunning use of language then associated with that thief and hustler,Hermes. Hesiod, Theogony: The Muses say, "We know how to speakmuch that is false but seems like the truth, and, if we like, we also knowhow to speak the things that are true." From the earliest period,Greeks are aware of the seductiveness, the trickery, behind music and cunninguse of language. in the Homeric Hymn), symbolically subjoined to the supervision ofa very different kind of god (Apollo) when H. H's relationship to Apollo: the cunning of deceit of WORDS (severalexx. Heracles and hisuncontrolled outbursts, the raping and brutality of Zeus, Gilgamesh's uncontrolledlust (and here the "shadow" becomes a "second self"in the figure of Enkidu, etc. Shadow: sinister force within one that is a composite of unacknowledgenegative elements like fear, hatred, envy, lust: e.g. of Persephone/Hades).Archetypes can be symbols as well as typical figures or patterns of behavior.Īnimus/anima: when distorted, one can view the female as aMedusa or Fury, the male as a rapist or tyrant (Persephone and Hades) of Hermes, as (a) herm, (b) trickster, (c)child god ("the child motif represents the preconscious, childhoodaspect of the collective psyche"- NOT, as Freud, as vestigial memoryof our own childhood: for the archetype is always an image belonging tothe whole human race and not merely to the individual cf. Archetypes spring from the collective unconsciousof the entire human race: thus we can still relate to myths of birth, testing,conflict, death, and rebirth because we inherit the archetypes fromour remotest ancestors (ex. figures (great mother, etc.) were universal.He called these archetypes = models or patternsthat seem to inhabit the minds of every human, from very primitive to verysophisticated. stituations and actions - journeys, encounterswith monsters - and part. One expects of coursebasic human emotions like fear, desire, greed to dominate myths and dreams,but Jung found also that part. the great mother, thepaternal judge, the clever trickster, the child god. Myths and dreams worldwide seem to share e.g. Handout: "mythologem" ~ "motif" in the sensethat Stith Thompson uses it, that is a recognizable folklore or mythologicalpatternĪrchetypes and the collective unconscious Jung disagreed with his master that dreams were fundamentally informedby individual experiences, and particularly disagreed with Freud's hypothesisof the centrality of the experience of infant sexuality in the individuationofthe person Jung (1875-1961): a student, later a rival, ofFreud gives the lyre to Apollo(more on which next time!)Ĭ.
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