"The reader may well be temppted to ask, How was it that intelligent men did not sooner detect the fallacy of magic? How cold they continue to cherish expectations that were invariably doomed to disappointment?"
Lit 285 9/21/2010
Heterocosin- loving in another world as you listen to a story. (Mythic story)
“The final belief is to believe in a fiction which you know to be a fiction there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.” Wallace Stevens
Axis Mundi- the creation tree. The place where the lower world connects with the upper world. Image expresses a point of connection between sky and earth where the four compass directions meet.
Omphalos- the center of something. Means “navel”
Assign: read someone else’s memory blog and write a blog about it.
*CG Jung: Had problems with Fraud’s beliefs. Jung had a dream about descending in the basement of a house. Developed theory of Collective unconscious. (Unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience and is common to all humankind, as distinct from the individual’s unconscious).Psyche- means the soul, mind, or spirit. Origin mid 17th cent: via Latin from Greek
*Joseph Campbell’s dream
-The Razor’s Edge –good read
-Room by Emma Donoghue (told from the point of view of a child) - good reads
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