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Mann's Freud Birthday Speech
- Thomas Mann humorously turned Freud's birthday talk into a reflection on the artist's self and mythic introspection. - He acknowledged his work was influenced by Jung and operated in a mythological mode before Freud's theories emerged.
Mann & Joyce's Mythic Modernism
- Mann and Joyce innovated literature by embedding mythological structures within modernist novels disguised as naturalism. - Their works reveal a shift from surface realism to deep myth, reflecting cultural transformation after World War I.
Kant on Mind's Time and Space
- Kant's philosophy shows time and space as forms of our mind, creating our sense of separateness and phenomenal experience. - This insight is foundational to understanding myth and consciousness as reflections of mental structures, not absolute reality.