He tries to solve all his problems by plunging headlong into a collective situation There is no religion and no philosophy that can give us a comprehensive answer to the whole of our problems, and the abandonment and isolation of the individual who is given no answer, or only inadequate answers, to his question lead…
Owing to his loss of soul, the world he has shaped becomes a patriarchal world On the lowest level, this loss of soul turns the man into the hen-pecked husband who lives with his wife as though she were his mother upon whom he is solely dependent in all things having to do with emotions…
She is the creative Earth, which not only brings forth and swallows life As the Great Creatrix, the feminine is no vessel and passage for an alien, masculine Other that condescends towards her, enters into her, and favors her with the seed of living. Life originates in her and issues from her, and the light…
A MYTHOLOGICAL IMAGE OF GIRLHOOD To my Nine-Year-old Daughter ~Karl Kerenyi, D.D. “So spoke the child and tried to touch her father)s chin. But in vain she stretched up her little hands several times. Then with a smile her father leaned down and caressed her, saying: (When goddesses bear me children like this) the wrath of…
The star or tree in us is no less real and no less symbolic than it is in outward experience. However, the natural symbol, without our being sufficiently conscious of the fact, is identical with the reality of the world that appears to us, for every object in the natural world is at the same…