Tag: Joseph Campbell
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A Once for Now
Don’t you just love myth? Not myth as in magical legends, or purposeful deceptions, you understand, but myth as an explanation of origin, an explanation of values, and as a search for the why and how of cultural identity. Myth is the story of who we think we are, and of the place from whence…
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Life after the bedtime story
I’m not sure when I was first introduced to myths -Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces in university to be sure- but I think it was when I was much younger that I became fascinated with the idea of stories which, although often fanciful, tried to explain the meaning and significance of the…
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The Myth of Medicine
The concept of the myth has always intrigued me. Not, as it is historically characterized – the fabulous stories of gods and heroes- or the more populist idea of an untruth or counterfactual, but rather as a metaphor. Myth as a way of explaining something that is difficult to put into words, that defies rational…
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A Right to Die?
Death is a word most doctors avoid; it is a defeat. Anathema. It is, in all their texts, in all their studies, blasphemous. Heresy. And my specialty is certainly not immune. In Obstetrics, it is an especial desecration: we are so used to dealing with the opposite that the very word, let alone the concept…
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