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have been on the increase lately. … If the attempts of this school have not yet borne much fruit, it is because we fear the devil's sight more than his activity, and because of a very understandable reticence to force open our 'whited
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in the strict Jungian sense. Rather, he sees the myth of figures such as Satan and Prometheus as expressing "the shortcomings … of the world as conceived by the human soul." The relation of
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and others. It was Werblowsky's first published book. This volume was reissued in 1999 by Routledge. It includes an introduction written by Jung.
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has become a reality to our generation, and nobody knows what is still ahead of us. It is understandable therefore that books on the
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became a disproportionately appealing character because of attributes he shares with the
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Gilgul: Essays on Transformation, Revolution and Permanence in the History of Religions
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The International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method
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universe, and thus stands as the prototype of human civilizing effort."
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Work of psychological literary criticism written by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
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Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa, "Myth into Metaphor: The Case of Prometheus",
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at its limits", and makes explicit the motivating factor of
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series published 1910–1965 and including titles from Jung,
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Alessandro Bausani, "Islam in the History of Religions",
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and published in 1952. In it, Werblowsky argues that the
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is explored through the interaction of the concepts of
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Index


Satan
Paradise Lost
Gustave Doré
psychological literary criticism
R.J. Zwi Werblowsky
Satan
John Milton
Paradise Lost
Greek
Titan
Prometheus
Carl Jung
his school
the human psyche
archetype
power
civilization
Old Testament
sin
Greek
hubris
sublunar
post-lapsarian
eschatological
heroic
World War II

Prometheus
Jacob Jordaens

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