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Tag Archives: James Frazer
“we don’t talk we hold forth”
They evoke a memory here, a recognition there, of the kind of overarticulate, overemotional young people who excitedly theorize about the universe and themselves, who forever question what they are saying and then question the question itself, who sound as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Kazin, David Leitch, Don Quixote, Harold Bloom, Henry Grunwald, J.D. Salinger, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kenneth Slawenski, Mary McCarthy, Maxwell Geismer, Oswald Achenbach, seymour krim, Warren French, William Weigand
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keeping hansel and gretel on a short leash
They exist. And we know that this invisible architecture of the labyrinth can be very real and almost impossible to get out of. In the mythical Greek tale, Icarus was able to fly out on some crafted wings, but still … Continue reading
Diana: weeping at the grove in alba
Great Diana. It is the cult of Diana, the mother goddess. Great Diana of the Ephesians. The ruins of her ancient capital yielded the finest statue of what is called “the mother goddess of Asia.” She looks into space with … Continue reading
Dionysian sacrifice
Anthony Weiner as a Dionysian sacrifice. Dragged from the fields of Alba onto a sacrificial pyre.As James Frazer in the Golden Bough remarked, was the later pretence of treating the sacrificial victims as if they were human beings was merely … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Maslow, anthony weiner, Caravaggio, christine rosen, christopher lasch, David Riesman, Dr. Sam Vaknin, Erich Fromm, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, John William Waterhouse, mike segar reuters, ross douthat, Tom Wolfe
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The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?
A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, beyonce, Carl Jung, Carlo Ginzburg, daniel pinchbeck, Dionysus, Greil Marcus, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, James Hillman, jeremy narby, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Lady Gaga, mercea eliade, rogan taylor, stanley booth, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Titian
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The Engineering of Human Desire
human desire and separating the needs from wants. … Tai Carmen (http://taicarmen.wordpress.com/): In an earlier post, “Invisible Architects”, we explored the birth of a fascinating marriage in American consumer culture: psychoanalysis and marketing. To recap briefly, the original, pre-commercial boom … Continue reading
the golden bough: keeping the show on the road
Its the Antiques Roadshow up on Cripple Creek.The Golden Bough, the first king, sexless in suburbia and watch out for those in-laws.The comparison of today’s Royal family with Elizabeth I and James I are not that far-fetched as the current … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Henry Lord Darnley, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, Kate Middleton, Livinus de Vogelaare, Lord Darnley, Mary Queen of Scots, Prince Charles, Prince William, Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Paine
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astarte: negotiations and love epics
What is the Astarte phenomenon? Lover and destroyer, bestower of both life and death.A femme fatale? This contradictory Near Eastern deity gave herself freely to all men but was “owned” by none. Was she the patron goddess of feminism? “The … Continue reading
may day: wet dynamite eventually dries
What the theorists of May Day revolution had failed to take into account were the traditional and only partly conscious associations of the date itself. For centuries it had been a particularly relaxed popular holiday, given over to joyous singing, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Fernand Leger, hans eisler, James Frazer, John Heartfield, jules guesde, Meryl Streep, Rosa Luxemburg, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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king of the wood: return to the grove at nemi
In James Frazer’s The Golden Bough, one is caught up in the drama of a dark and sleeping earth warmed into renewed life by the reviving sun, which also seems in the end to symbolize, for author and reader of … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Jung, Elvis Presley, James Frazer, james george frazer, Jim Morrison The Doors, John Lennon, Joseph Campbell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, mary renault, matt rees, Michael jackson, Rudolf Steiner
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