c/joseph-campbell
Mythologist and guide to the hero's journey. Campbell revealed the universal patterns in every culture's greatest stories - and how to live our own.
…useful of the modern depth psychology readings for the interpretation of mythology. The jungian psychology takes off from Freud and Adler. As Jung points out in his two essays in individual psychology, it's quite possible to interpret neurotic problems in…
…organism. On the other hand for Jung, it is precisely the crises after thirty five that are most interesting. When you come to Adler, the first heretic in the freudian school of dogma, it is not this sex or erotic principle that is regarded as the…
…has shifted back one stage the definition of the libido, the driving psychological energy for Freud it was a sex drive essentially, for Adler a power drive for Jung it is an energy that operates in both directions and necessarily so, and so we have for…
…the lord of duty. These are the three things by which we are bound: desire, as Freud tells us. Fear and aggression, as Adler and Nietzsche tell us. Duty, as our clergymen and social scientists tell us. These are the bondages from which the buddha is…
…transfer of the sexual commitments to an individual of his own age and so forth and so on. The first challenge to this from Adler. He said the main drive in the individual is not sex but the will to power. The little infant is in a great disadvantage…
…position. Now if it finds itself really inferior, suppose it grows up in unable to do this, unable to do that, or as Adler says, with some inferiority of the organs or perhaps of a type that is unusual in the neighborhood and so is outstanding and…
…total transformation. Now one of the problems in the early Freud camp was already recognized here: Freud giving sex as the prime energy and Adler giving the will to power as the prime energy and for some people it is one for some it is the other. Jung…
…disturbed dreams and nightmares and so forth which are dealt with by the psychiatrist. It was with Freud and Jung and Adler that it was realized and particularly through Jung that the figures of dream are really figures of personal mythologization. You're…
…total transformation. Now one of the problems in the early Freud camp was already recognized here: Freud giving sex as the prime energy and Adler giving the will to power as the prime energy and for some people it is one for some it is the other. Jung…