In Quest of the Hero: (Mythos Series)Princeton University Press, 10. aug 2021 - 272 pages In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha. |
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... child of most distinguished parents, usually the son of a king. His origin is preceded by difficulties, such as continence, or prolonged barrenness, or secret intercourse of the parents due to external prohibition or obstacles. During ...
... child harbors against his father, and which in this fiction are projected against the father.” What the hero seeks gets masked as power, not incest. Most of all, who the hero is becomes some third party, a historical or legendary figure ...
... children, in a sense, although otherwise appearing grown-up.” Since no mere child can overpower his father, the mythmaker imagines being old enough to do so. In short, the myth expresses not the Freudian goal of the first half of life ...
... child's managing to forge consciousness of the external world is for Jung heroic. For Freud, the unconscious is the product of the repression of instincts. For Jung, it is inherited rather than created and includes more than repressed ...
... children, if any, do not succeed him. (21) His body is not buried, but nevertheless (22) He has one or more holy sepulchres.” Clearly, parts one to thirteen correspond roughly to Rank's entire scheme, though Raglan himself never read ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Circle of Myths | 13 |
The Interpretation of the Myths | 57 |
The Genesis of Myth | 89 |
Myth and Ritual | 109 |
Myth and Ritual Continued | 116 |
The Tale of Troy | 125 |
Myth and the Historic Hero | 165 |
THE HERO PATTERN AND THE LIFE OF JESUS | 179 |
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In Quest of the Hero: (Mythos Series) Otto Rank,Lord Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan,Alan Dundes No preview available - 1990 |