EP 21: Imagery of Vision in the novels of James Joyce
Pathways with Joseph Campbell
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Joyce's Expulsion to the Gods and the Return to the Cross
In the Christian tradition, this whole thing is interpreted in terms of guilt and atonement. But when you interpret the angels as simply aspects of your own sentiments desire and loathing, which are keeping you out of the God,. realize that you're being kept out by your own sentiment mythology. And this is exactly what Joyce does with all these. He takes the Christian symbology, which is entirely in terms of a God who's supposed to exist and we in relationship to the God, and he rereads it in terms of these nasty principles instead of pedagogy. The whole thing opens up with a whole new life. I can tell you that every symbology worth even thinking about, if
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