What is an Emotion? William James (1884) The physiologists who, during the past few years, have been so industriously exploring the functions of the brain, have limited their attempts at explanation to its cognitive and volitional performances. Dividing the brain into sensorial and motor centres, they have found their division to be exactly paralleled by…
William Bousset, The Antichrist Legend ORIGIN OF THE BABYLONIAN DRAGON MYTH. “Tt may be safely afifirmed that no popular myth — can compare with that of the Antichrist legend in general interest, widespread diflfusion, and persistence, from a hoar antiquity down to the present time. In the present work, which deals mainly with the early…
Joseph Campbell, Myths to Live By I was sitting the other day at a lunch counter that I particularly enjoy, when a youngster about twelve years old, arriving with his school satchel, took the place at my left. Beside him came a younger little man, holding the hand of his mother, and those two took…
Embodying Persephone’s Desire: Authentic Movement Jungian interpretations of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter that address the theme of woundedness focus primarily on the abduction/rape of the maiden and the inconsolable rage of Demeter. Another subtler wound implicit in the Hymn frequently goes unmentioned: Kore’s initial status as a nameless offshoot of the mother goddess. This…