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Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Ker?nyi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been called "the most mythological of psychologists." Ker?nyi contributes an essay on the Divine Child and one on the Kore (the Maiden), together with a substantial introduction and conclusion. Jung contributes a psychological commentary on each essay. 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 living psychological realities that provide continuing meaning in people's lives.The investigations of C. Ker?nyi are continued in a later study, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Princeton).
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THE BOLLINGEN SERIES XXII
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Head of a Bow-stretching Eros
ESSAYS ON A
SCIENCE OF MYTHOLOGY THE MYTH OF THE DIVINE CHILD
AND THE MYSTERIES OF ELEUSIS
BY C. G.JUNG AND C. KERENYI TRANSLATED BY R. F. C. HULL
BOLLINGEN SERIES XXII PANTHEON BOOKS
CONTENTS PltOLEGOMENA,
I.
by C. Ken§nyi
Tr-IE PRIl\'1ORDIAL CHILD IN PRIMonDIAL TIMES,
1. 2.
3. 4· 5. 6.
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II. A.
by C. Kel'blyi
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Child-Gods The Orphan Child A Vogul God Kullervo Narayana Apollo Hermes Zeus Dionysus
35 38 42 47 55
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE
63
70 80 90
CHILD-ARCHETYPEi~)
by C. G. lung Introduction 1. The Archetype as a Condition of the Past ..... 2. The Function of the Archetype ..,.3. The Futurity of the Archetype -..4. Unity and PIUl'ality of the Child-Motif 5. Child-God and Child-Hero E.
95 97 109 112
115 II6 117
THE SPECIAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF TIlE CHILD-ARCHETYPE
119
I: The Abandonment of the Child
119
The Invincibility of the Child 3. The Hermaphroditism of the Child 4. The Child as Beginning anc! End Conclusion
123
2.
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133 135
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IV.
KOllE, by C. Kerellyi I. Anadyomenc 2. The Paradox of the Mythological Idea 3. Maiden-Goddesses 4- Hecate 5. Demeter 6. Persephone 7. Indonesian Koxe Figures I:l. The Korc in Eleusis 9. The Elcusinian Paradox Tm: PSYCIIOLOGICAL by C. G.]ung
EPILEGOMENA:
ASPECTS OF THE
14 2 145 14 8 15 2 15 8 16 7
179 188 20 9
KouJ',
The Miracle of Eleusis, by C. Kere'/lyi
INDEX OF AUTHORS
139
21 5
247
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS I.
Head of a Bow-stretching Eros Copy from the time of Hadrian of an original presumably by Lysippus. Berlin, private owncrship
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Winged Eros Hellenistic (c. md century, D.C.). Munich, Muscum fur Antike Kleinkunst. Photo Karl Bauer
3.
Putta with Dolphin Roman. Naples, Musco Nazionale
4.
Child with a Lamp, wearing a cucullus Roman. Rome, Musco Nazionale
5. Sleeping Arnor Bronze. Venetian, end of 15th century. Vienna, private ownership Illustrations 2, 3 and 5 are taken from the book by Glaser, Ein hi17lmlischer Kindergarten, with the kind permission of F. Bruckmann, Publishers, Munich.
PROLEGOMENA I
BY C. KERENYI
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