Mythic Figures (Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman) by Hillman James

Author:Hillman, James [Hillman, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Spring Publications, Inc.
Published: 2012-11-24T05:00:00+00:00

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A Lecture first delivered at the Eranos Conference “Crossroads,” August 1987, Ascona, Switzerland, and subsequently published in Eranos Yearbook 56 (1987).

1 CW 5: 1–2.

2 S. Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams,” in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud, trans. A. A. Brill (New York: Modern Library, 1938), 306–7.

3 Ibid., 307.

4 Ibid., 308.

5 Ibid.

6 CW 6: 78.

7 S. Freud, The Origins of Psychoanalysis: Letters to Wilhelm Fliess (London: Imago, 1954); letter dated 15 October 1897.

8 Cited from an interview with Jung, December 1961, as quoted in E. Edinger, Ego and Archetype (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973), 101.

9 The Sophocles texts of Oedipus Tyrannus and Oedipus at Colonus referred to are those published in the Loeb Classical Library. Translations into English quoted are those of: A. Cook, in Greek Tragedy: An Anthology (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1981); F. Storr, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone [1912], Loeb Classical Library, vol. 1 (Harvard University Press and London: Heinemann, 1981); E. F. Watling, Sophocles: The Theban Plays (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1950); R. Fagles, The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984); D. Grene, Sophocles I (Chicago: University Press, 1991); G. Young, The Dramas of Sophocles in English Verse (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1906ff.); W. Moebius (Oedipus at Colonus) in Greek Tragedy. Also consulted were A. C. Pearson, Sophoclis Fabulae (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923); my line enumerations attempt to follow those of Pearson and Storr.

10 “Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy,” CP 3: 253 (Er ist wirklich ein kleiner Ödipus …).

11 Einstein on Peace, ed. O. Nathan and H. Norden (New York: Schocken Books, 1960), 186–203.

12 “Wotan” was first published in the Neue Schweizer Rundschau; now in CW 10: 371–99.

13 S. Benardete, “Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus,” in Sophocles, ed. T. Woodard (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966), 109.

14 W. Shakespeare, Henry V (4.1.213–14).

15 Cf. R. Lattimore, “Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus,” in Oedipus, Myth and Dramatic Form, ed. J. L. Sanderson and E. Zimmerman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968), 295–97. The stories of Cithaeron are collected in W. H. Roscher, Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie (Hildesheim: Olms, 1965), II/1, 1208–9.

16 Roscher, V, 207–10.

17 Pausanias’s Description of Greece, translated with a commentary by J. G. Frazer (London: Macmillan and Co., 1898), 5: 20.

18 Ibid.

19 K. Kerényi, The Heroes of the Greeks (London: Thames & Hudson, 1959), 92.

20 “Little did he know that the riddle of the Sphinx can never be solved merely by the wit of man” (CW 5: 264); “The riddle of the Sphinx was herself – the terrible mother-imago, which Oedipus would not take as a warning” (5: 265); “Oedipus … fell victim to his tragic fate, because he thought he had answered the question. It was the Sphinx itself that he ought to have answered and not its facade” (10: 714).

21 CW 10: 714: K. Koffka, Principles of Gestalt Psychology (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1936), 407; discussed in my Emotion: A Comprehensive Phenomenology of Theories and their Meaning for Therapy (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960), 139–41.

22 I refer here to the materia signata or materia individualis of Thomas Aquinas.

23 CW 10: 714; SE 19: 178.

24 A. Guggenbühl-Craig, “Der nur gute Vater,” Gorgo 12 (1987), 31–42.

25 Imitation (mimesis) may serve as a first entry into initiation, as an exercise in behaving in advance of oneself.

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