2007-02-26 06:23:47 · 5 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
No, I don't. To fully understand what Campbell was doing, and this thinking, you will have to read all of his works, not just pick one at random, and compare those works with people who looked at religion and mythology from various angles. You should read as much of Mircea Eliade as you can find, Otto Rank and his various works, Frazier, who wrote The Golden Bough and other books to find a better perspective with which you can view Campbell. Otto Rank was a compatriot of Freud's who broke from the fold. Another who broke from Freud's fold was Carl Jung who wrote in much the same area - his books and essays on archetypes. I think you will find Mircea's HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS (3 volumes) interesting and therein you will find that there is not much original in Christianity, it is a product of syncretism - a mixture of all sorts of ideas from times farther back than the Bible.
2007-02-26 06:37:36 · answer #1 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, Satan is totally always possessing people and making them write brilliant and incisive literary/anthropological criticism. When Frederick Jameson was writing "Postmodernism, Or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," he was so possessed that his head was spinning around and he could kill people with his mind.
2007-02-26 14:41:00 · answer #2 · answered by Drew 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No - I do not believe demonic possession is an actual diagnosable/valid condition. Some great imagination went ito the book though...
2007-02-26 14:27:54 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Why do you ask such a strange question?
2007-02-26 14:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by zed10096 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i don't
2007-02-26 14:25:39 · answer #5 · answered by martin 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋