Essays on a Science of Mythology
Essays on a Science of Mythology Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Jung, who has been called the most mythological of psychologists. Ker nyi, who has been called the…
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Essays on a Science of Mythology
Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Jung, who has been called the most mythological of psychologists. Ker nyi, who has been called the most psychological of mythologists, and C. G.
Jung contributes a psychological commentary on each essay. Ker nyi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the Kore (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Both men hoped, through their collaboration, to elevate the study of mythology to the status of a science.In The Primordial Child in Primordial Times Ker nyi treats the child-God as an enduring and significant figure in Greek, Norse, Finnish, Etruscan, and Judeo-Christian mythology.
He discusses the Kore as Athena, Artemis, Hecate, and Demeter-Persephone, the mother-daughter of the Eleusinian mysteries. Jung speaks of the Divine Child and the Maiden as