…you said, when I'm saying symbolical consciousness or symbolic systems, or as Yeats said, metaphors for poetry, or as even Joseph Campbell said, myth. As metaphor. As metaphor, as myth and as religion. Don't imagine, you know, that literalistic religion or…

…the quintessential work of art or at least work of literature of the 20th century, and Joyce intended it that way. Joseph Campbell called it a staggering allegory of the fall and redemption of mankind. Equally respected critics have called it a surrender…

…rory and to the Regan Bro was to be seen ringsome on the aqua Face. That seems pretty obscure to me. According to Joseph Campbell It's simply a reference to the presence of god moving over the waters in the first lines of genesis. Then this phrase, the…

…a work of magical complexity and enfolded self reference now we've just been through these first four paragraphs now I'll read you what Joseph Campbell has to say on it by no means all of what he has to say on it. The first four paragraphs are the…

…is enormous. But traditionally I think through the study of world mythology, ritual, religion and so on in the sense of Joseph Campbell let us say we could identify. Let us say we could successfully identify the good genius and then design rituals. Let…