CLASS 40 Lecture 16: Lecture 16
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Greek mythology-psychology behind a universe aspect of myth. Freud"s particular ideas of human psychology: children growing up at a certain age, when they start to feel sexual reaction, direct their sexual attention towards the closest possible person-boys towards their mother, causing hostile feelings towards father; Same with girls and their father and hostile feelings towards the mother. As the child gets older, realizes that it"s inappropriate, redirects their sexual desire towards the appropriate individuals. !1: student of jung, joseph campbell-a hero of a thousand faces. Very powerful expression of the storyline-certain hero adventure patterns, certain psychological archetypes that make these stories so interesting. Returning to the individual, all have different kinds of feelings that lead us to interact with people in different ways. Everyone has the demeter archetype, aphrodite archetype, athena archetype-some people express it differently. Demoter-maternal feeling, wanting to be a mother, nurturing others in a maternal way.