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For normal men [dreaming] is the sole experience in which they escape the offensive and incomprehensible bondage of time and space. Hence it is not surprising that man was slow to confine the attribute of reality to one of his two worlds, and dismiss the other as pure illusion. This stage was reached in antiquity by only a small number of intellectuals . . . primitive peoples still [give dream experience] validity.
— Feb 22, 2018 05:21AM
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Lisa Lieberman
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We've moved into the realm of the classic anthropologists: Tylor, Lévy-Bruhl, Malinowski. Jane Harrison gets a mention. All tending toward understanding the thinking of primitive peoples by unearthing the primitive aspects of "Homer's" texts. Add Gilbert Murray's notion of the Inherited Conglomerate (he was Dodds's mentor), the commonly accepted beliefs and assumptions that comprise a society's cultural parameters.
— Feb 25, 2018 02:22PM
Lisa Lieberman
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The psychologists have taught us how potent a source of guilt-feelings is the pressure of unacknowledged desires, desires which are excluded from consciousness save in dreams or daydreams. . .
. . . the Homeric Zeus is modelled on that of the Homeric paterfamilias. It was natural to project on the heavenly father those curiously mixed feelings about the human one that the child dared not acknowledge even to itself.
— Feb 17, 2018 03:38PM
. . . the Homeric Zeus is modelled on that of the Homeric paterfamilias. It was natural to project on the heavenly father those curiously mixed feelings about the human one that the child dared not acknowledge even to itself.
Lisa Lieberman
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I had forgotten what a Freudian Dodds was, but a quick look at the index, after finishing the first chapter, confirms it. Ten references to Freud himself (plus others in the notes), separate entries for The Interpretation of Dreams, Oedipus Dream (as distinct from Oedipus himself). But, of course, the lectures from which this book is derived were delivered in 1949, when psychoanalysis was in vogue.
— Feb 12, 2018 07:29PM
