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| Eternal Sunshine of the spotless mind quote "Every one of us harbors an inextinguishable need for___" |
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| traditional stories of unknown authorship, ostensibly with a historical basis, usually serving to explain some phenomenon of nature, origin of humanity, or customs, religious rites, of a people. |
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| According to Jung, ___ are mythic characters, events, symbols, and buried assumptions transmited from one generation to another through the collective conscious. |
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| James Joyce used the term ____ to indicate that the concept of the hero is the same everywhere. |
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| ___ believed that the wnoble family and the common family in the hero myth represent the parents at different stages of a child's development. |
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| Not typically found in the life of the mythic hero, according to Otto Rank: |
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| A spiritual revelation followed by renunciation of the self. |
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| Removing a sword from a stone provided the "early recognition" for___. |
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| To gain his early recognition, Theseus had to lift a heavy stone that covered___ |
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| The hero's early recognition for greatness satisfies our universal need for___. |
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| The archetypal her's great deed ____. |
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| The story of the ___, who had the head of a bull and the body of a man. |
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| Freudians may interpret the Minotaur myth as ____. |
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| A young person's arriving at sexual maturity. |
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| Myths of the West seldom end when the heroes are happy and successful, as with a hero like ____, who is guilty of patricide and incest, killing his father and marrying his mother. |
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| The heroine of George Bernard Shaw's play who offers to return to life but is rejected is ____. |
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| According to Joseph Campbell, the hero in eastern mythology tends to be without ____. |
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| In Chinese mythology, the "Yellow Emperor" credited his success to the help of ____. |
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| Confucius, in reference to the mythological "hero", occupied himself manly with ______. |
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| practical advice for those who would rule. |
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| Another name for the mythical "special someone" is ____. |
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| The film 'Shane' was a classic western reflecting the underlying myth of the ___. |
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| Sesame street probably owes its title to the words spoken by the mythic hero ___. |
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| The Circle as an archetype has been used to symbolize ____. |
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| Oneness, completeness, and eternity. |
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| Stonehenge was erected on Salisbury Plain to ____. |
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| Provide a means of predicting the seasons. |
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| A non-circular view of the meaning of existence, a major archetype in Western mythology and another way of depicting the course of human life which implies both purpose and final destination is ___. |
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| Eden, Canaan, and the New World are al versions of the archetype of the ____ which believed in a Golden Age when things were better. |
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| Writers of the eighteenth century revived the myth of the Garden as they mourned the ___. |
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| Shift from rural to urban living. |
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| A philosophy that believes people living in the state of nature are happier and less likely to commit crimes is ____. |
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| Famous archetype associated with Rousseau: |
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| The Greeks believed that nothing in the universe was as important as ____. |
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| The author of the novel, 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey', is _____. |
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| Creation myths deal with ____. |
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| The unsolved question of our world's origin. |
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| The early sacred books of India, the Upanishads, said the universe was the creation of a preexistent ___, that was lonely, afraid, and desirous of companionship. |
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| In the epic poem, Paradise Lost, ____ assumes the preexistence of both God and a chaotic universe. |
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| Early people performed ___ in order to affect the behavior of the gods. |
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| In explaining nature, a Greek explanation for the seasons was the love of Demeter, goddess of the earth, who created winter out of grief for the loss of her ___. |
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| ____ was transformed by Apollo into a flower after the god accidentally killed him during a game. |
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| A common explanation for suffering was an early act of transgression against ____. |
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| In Hindu tradition, Karma is: |
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| a summation at death of how one has lived his life. |
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| _____ was meant to remind young girls of what can happen when they indulge in practices forbidden by religion and family. |
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| ____ was allowed to follow Orpheus back to earth provided he trust she was behind him. |
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| The Greeks introduced a way of accounting for human woes, and that was ___. |
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| Childhood tales usually satisfy the child's need for: |
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| Myths like Rumplestiltskin illustrate the importance of ____. |
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| The well-known fairy tales do not have ___. |
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| Women who think for themselves |
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| The movie "somewhere in time" is an example of what saying? |
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