Living Myth Personal Meaning As a Way of Life

Name: Living Myth Personal Meaning As a Way of Life
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ISBN: 9781570626845

ISBN-10: 1570626847

ISBN-13: 9781570626845

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Authors: D. Stephenson Bond

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Living Mythexplores the dilemma of how to live life creatively at a time when the dominant myths of our culture are losing their power to give meaning to our lives. Using C. G. Jung's idea of discovering a "personal myth," D. Stephenson Bond reflects on the psychology of mythic imagination, as a force in both culture and individual life. He argues that meaning is experienced subjectively through the stirring of imagination and fantasy in the individual, which touches the larger impersonal, archetypal patterns. The book offers hopeful insights into the possibilities of cultural renewal and individual meaning through the restoration of the imagination.

Book details

List price: $27.95
Publisher: Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.02" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Touch of Myth


A Stone in My Pocket


Subjective Participation: Lost in the Fantasy


Objective Consciousness: Demythologizing the Stone


Symbolic Consciousness: Awareness of the Game


Mythological Consciousness: The Million-Year-Old-Man



The Twilight of the Gods


The Death of Myth


The Environmental Function of Myth


The Dysfunctional Myth


The Religious Function of Myth



The Personal Myth


The Validity of Subjective Experience: One Woman's Story


Transitional Phenomena: Where Fantasy Breaks Through


Genius and Neurosis


Myth and Individuation