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Growing down: early Greek thinking

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Growing down: early Greek thinking book

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Growing down: early Greek thinking book

ByBrent Potter
BookElements of Reparation

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
Imprint Routledge
Pages 38
eBook ISBN 9780429474149

ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the author focuses on Greek antiquity with some reflections upon their present circumstances. At the risk of sounding too informal, the author likes to add a few personal thoughts about the importance of Greek thinking. One's soul was populated, constructed by, the gods, goddesses, and other characters found in Greek mythology and other mythologies. Sigmund Freud returned psychology to its cultural roots in Greek mythology and Carl Jung differentiated, broadened, amplified, and expanded the work from there, uncovering more of the meaning and ground of Greek mythology as foundation of psychological life and one's quest for individuation. The Greeks recognized the inseparable yet finely differentiated connection between mythos and pathos, myths and suffering/experience, between the gods and maladies, relationships and politics. James Hillman, boldly states, "This is the greatest of all achievements of the Greek mind, singling out that culture from all others, despite its flaws, its faults".

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