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Jay’s Revised Modern Canon 2021 Edition World Literature                 Mythology, Psychology, & Anthropology

                 

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Roberto Calasso

     Prometheus: Archetypal Image of Human Existence, Eleusis: Archetypal Image of Mother and Daughter, Dionysos: Archetypal Image of Indestructible Life, Athene: Virgin and Mother in Greek Religion, Hermes: Guide of Souls, Apollo: The Wind, the Spirit, and the God: Four Studies, Zeus and Hera, Essays on a Science of Mythology: The Myth of the Divine Child and the Mysteries of Eleusis (with C.G. Jung), Oedipus Variations (with James Hillman), Karl Kerényi

     Classical Mythology in Literature, Art, and Music, Mayerson

     Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Grimal

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art, Lewis Hyde

     Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture, Anthropology and Myth: Lectures 1951-82, Mythologiques Series: (The Raw and the Cooked,

From Honey to Ashes: Introduction to a Science of Mythology,

The Origin of Table Manners, The Naked Man), Structural Anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss

     The Myth of the Eternal Return or Cosmos and History, Myth and Reality, The Eliade Guide to World Religions, Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World: A Thematic Sourcebook on the History of Religions, Mircea Eliade

     The Golden Bough, James George Frazer

     The Freud Reader Peter Gay (Editor), Totem and Taboo, Civilization and Its Discontents, The Interpretation of Dreams, Sigmund Freud

Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay

     Man and His Symbols, The Essential Jung (Anthony Storr editor), Modern Man in Search of a Soul, The Undiscovered Self, Answer to Job, Psychological Types, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, Alchemical Studies, Psychology and Alchemy, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Aion: researches into the Phenomenology of the Self,  Memories Dreams Reflections, The Red Book, C.G. Jung

 Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung’s Psychology, June K. Singer

Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts, Jungian Psychology Unplugged: My Life As an Elephant, Daryl Sharp

The Aion Lectures: Exploring the Self in C.G. Jung’s Aion, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, Edward F. Edinger

     Signs Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture, Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self , From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media Into the Twenty-First Century, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock, Managing Monsters: Six Myths of Our Time: The Reith Lectures 1994, Marina Warner

     A Blue Fire, Dreaming the Dark, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life, Kinds of Power, Lament of the Dead: Psychology After Jung’s Red Book, A Terrible Love of War, Pan and the Nightmare, We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy – And the World’s Getting Worse. Opening the Dreamway, Inter Views: Conversations With Laura Pozzo on Psychotherapy, Biography, Love, Soul, Dreams, Work, Imagination, and the State of the Culture, James Hillman

      Myths to Live By, The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, The Mythic Image, Masks of God Series (Primitive Mythology, Oriental Mythology, Occidental Mythology, Creative Mythology) A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living, An Open Life, Joseph Campbell

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I am a former counselor, teacher, and debate coach who loves to read and write, and a student of literature, psychology, history, philosophy, and languages who loves to travel. Help me celebrate the lives and works of our great authors as a common human heritage. I can also be reached at jayofdollhousepark@gmail.com. Regarding my literary criticism on Dollhouse Park Conservatory and Imaginarium: My initial project was to celebrate the authors whose work I love on their birthdays, by reading something of theirs and writing an appreciation. I've now come full circle and completed the calendar year. These are the authors whose works have been my companions through life, and some new discoveries. Many of their books are ones I also taught in high school English classes; works thoroughly lived with. I also include reading lists by national literature, a Modern American Literature group of lists, and Best Books of the Year lists and reviews. There will occasionally be my own poetry as well; you are warned. I hope that you may also find books which will help you through life and bring depth and joy to your days. As to my aesthetics, I envision the mission of creating civilization as a game played by figures which represent conserving and revolutionary forces, as James Joyce and T.S. Eliot may serve as paragons of their sides of the board and reflect each other as partners in the great game of reimagining humankind, a result of the early influence of Herman Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game and Yasunari Kawabata’s The Master of Go, which I read during seventh grade, and Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy, which I read the following year. Each of us, as with every author, musician, artist, scientist, or public figure, plays the Great Game on one of these dyadic teams. The function of conservatism is to buffer order from the shock of the new and withstand stresses and changing conditions without losing ourselves or undergoing morphogenic change, the loss of identity as structural form, or ruptures to our prochronism, the memory and history of our choices, successful adaptations and strategies of survival as expressed in our systemic form, the loss of our culture and traditions. The function of revolution and innovation is to capitalize on chaos as adaptive potential in dynamically unstable conditions, to adapt and shape ourselves to future needs and to transform, create, and discover new forms, meanings, and values. We need both conserving and revolutionary forces to envision and enact a thing of beauty, be it a person, story, song, film, theory, or any creative artifact of authentic human imagination and experience. A beautiful political structure may be judged by the same criterion as a beautiful poem; so also with humans and the values their actions embody. Thank you so much for your company on this journey. Regarding my daily political journal on Torch of Freedom, a voice of progressive democracy and the antifascist Resistance: I stand for liberty, equality, truth, and justice; a free society of equals. My America is a torch of Liberty and a beacon of hope to the world. I stand for the absolute structural and systemic equality of all human beings, and for the Rights of Man everywhere on earth. I am on the side of Prometheus; rebellion, chaos, anarchy, resistance, transgression, revolution, and the frightening of the horses. Herein I write as an agent of Chaos and Transformation whose goal in life is to become a fulcrum and change the balance of power in the world. For thirty-nine years now I have been engaged in antifascist action, democracy activism, and revolutionary struggle against tyranny and state terror for the liberation of humankind, wherever men hunger to be free. And so I offer to all of you the Oath of the Resistance as it was given to me in Beirut 1982 by the great Jean Genet as he formulated it in Paris 1940, in a burning house, in a lost cause, in a time of force and darkness, in a last stand and an act of defiance beyond hope of victory or survival; “We swear our loyalty to each other, who answer tyranny with Liberty and fascism with Equality. We shall resist and yield not, and abandon not our fellows.” Resist and fear not, O my brothers and sisters, for in resistance we seize our freedom and become Unconquered.

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