Monday, September 29, 2008

09/29/2008 notes


Assignment #3: three questions


Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

"I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood."


ARCHETYPES
cf. Plato's Theory of Forms
tabula rasa

Carl Jung: the collective unconscious --

Self, Persona, Shadow, Anima/Animus, the family, the child, the wise elder
extrovert/introvert, thinking and feeling, sensation and intuition
differentiation and integration, transcendence
Individuation, Numinous
"If a man is contradicted by himself and does not know it, he is an illusionist, but if he knows that he contradicts himself, he is individuated."

dreams
Northrop Frye: theory of archetypes diagram

from Frye's "Anatomy of Criticism" p. 116
archetypes and myth associated w/ primitive and popular literature and their "unobstructed view of archetypes"
anagoge: interpretation of a word, passage, or text (as of Scripture or poetry) that finds beyond the literal, allegorical, and moral senses a fourth and ultimate spiritual or mystical sense
bowing to the divinity within one another
interpreter|translator
hermeneutics
reading is always reading into
reading the Times or the Eternities (Thoreau to Emerson)
the Fall
Eternal Return | Groundhog Day | Ouroboros | Mandala

Man Reading, Michael Sexson
Euripedes' Hippolytus

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