Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis

by Carl Jung, Carl Kerényi

Overview

Essays on a Science of Mythology is a cooperative work between C. Kerényi, who has been called "the most psychological of mythologists," and C. G. Jung, who has been called "the most mythological of psychologists." Kerényi 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" Kerényi 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. Kerényi are continued in a later study, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter (Princeton).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691017563
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	10/21/1969
Series:	Bollingen Series , #20
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Editorial Note	vii
	Prolegomena	1
I	The Primordial Child in Primordial Times	25
1.	Child-Gods	25
2.	The Orphan Child	27
3.	A Vogul God	30
4.	Kullervo	33
5.	Narayana	40
6.	Apollo	46
7.	Hermes	51
8.	Zeus	58
9.	Dionysus	66
II	The Psychology of the Child Archetype	70
I.	Introduction	70
II.	The Psychology of the Child Archetype	79
1.	The Archetype as a Link with the Past	79
2.	The Function of the Archetype	81
3.	The Futurity of the Archetype	83
4.	Unity and Plurality of the Child-Motif	84
5.	Child-God and Child-Hero	84
III.	The Special Phenomenology of the Child-Archetype	86
1.	The Abandonment of the Child	86
2.	The Invincibility of the Child	89
3.	The Hermaphroditism of the Child	92
4.	The Child as Beginning and End	96
IV.	Conclusion	98
III	Kore	101
1.	Anadyomene	102
2.	The Paradox of the Mythological Idea	103
3.	Maiden-Goddesses	106
4.	Hecate	109
5.	Demeter	113
6.	Persephone	120
7.	Indonesian Kore Figures	129
8.	The Kore in Eleusis	136
9.	The Eleusinian Paradox	151
IV	The Psychological Aspects of the Kore	156
1.	Case X	165
2.	Case Y	169
3.	Case Z	174
	Epilegomena: The Miracle of Eleusis	178
	References Cited	184
	Index	197

Editorial Reviews

"There is an abundance of interesting and occasionally suggestive detail . . . and beyond all this there is the undeniable importance and fascination of the question of the archetypes which Jung puts before us."

Sewanee Review