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Mythic Worlds, Modern Words: Joseph Campbell on the Art of James Joyce (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell)

Knowledge = Power

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The Four Cylinders of Life

Jung speaks of this quadrated image as the totally functioning psyche with the four psychological functions sensation intuition feeling and thinking all perfectly available to the individual so that one is working on all four cylinders. Joyce has carried us through the hell ranges where all these little egos are holding on to themselves and defending themselves he starts us moving toward the coming of love against control in the middle of Ulysses when the thunder sounds and bloom opens and tries to console Steven then Steven opens to bloom in the brothel. By the time bloom takes Steven home their self-contained characters have been as it were blown away they have theoretically annihilated themselves in this process. When we move into the wake we will be

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