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Art, Transgression, Religion, Science Fiction, Ritual Behavior, Children’s Play, Confusion of Categories in Mental Illness, Confusion of Categories in Philosophy, Straightening Out the Relationship Between Experience and Symbolization, Keeping It Real When We Don’t Quite Know What “Real” Is…In Other Words, You Really, Really Do Not Want to Read This.
I keep coming back to the topics that Joseph Campbell discussed (unsatisfactorily) all those years ago in The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, and that have been discussed repeatedly by academicians in the half century or so since that book, though there have been no other literature professors foolish enough to try to summarize them.
The relations between visual art, tale-telling, song, children’s play, rituals establishing social solidarity, practical activity, and marginal psychological experiences remain worthy of exploration instead of incomprehension, but by and large we continue in daily life to be as clueless about them as ( sorry…. )
I keep coming back to the topics that Joseph Campbell discussed (unsatisfactorily) all those years ago in The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology, and that have been discussed repeatedly by academicians in the half century or so since that book, though there have been no other literature professors foolish enough to try to summarize them.
The relations between visual art, tale-telling, song, children’s play, rituals establishing social solidarity, practical activity, and marginal psychological experiences remain worthy of exploration instead of incomprehension, but by and large we continue in daily life to be as clueless about them as ( sorry…. )
