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By : Monique Schneider
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Sunday, 02 January 2011 00:00 |
 Libertine, atheist, manipulator... Don Juan is a fascinating and complex character. In five centuries, traveling from a text to another, he passed from a stature of a literary hero to true modern myth. Within an continual movement, Don Juan is the emblem of a mutating world where patrimony stops being holy to let speculation and scattering of values developing: we passed from the being to appearances.
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By : Caroline Gindre
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Friday, 04 September 2009 00:00 |
Tiresias, which means "the one who is interested by signs", is one the most famous soothsayer of Greek mythology. Son of Everes, he became blind for having surprises the goddess Athena in her nudity in exchange she gave him the gift of divination.
To Caroline Gindre, the events of our life are the reflect of our inwardness. Tiresias is linked to intuitive intelligence which adapts to real, with lightened mind fit for sublimating aspirations and desires, guaranty of knowledge. Gathering the two feminine and male principles, he inclines to conciliate the opposites.
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By : Luc Bigé
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Saturday, 14 March 2009 11:30 |
To Luc Bigé, the Narcissus is a path of exploration for the being who seeks becoming oneself. He is everything at the same time a story of worried love, possessive, intense and exclusive, and nostalgia of an original world. Indeed, the man/Narcissus is in a neurosis; he refuses the love of others fearing to suffering. The external world is the mirror which has to learn him to overcome his fears, and break free to reach freedom. In the myth, death is the condition of his rebirth, the token of his reconciliation which has to lead him the love the self. How to overcome suffering? How to die to our representations? How to let oneself be loved and love?
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By : Michel Cazenave
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Thursday, 18 December 2008 20:23 |
 Born on the foam of waves, Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in the Greek tradition. Belonging to the pantheon of major gods, she incarnates pure, spiritual and religious love as much she does carnal and profane love.
In fact, whilst she presides over love, it is Eros who rules desire and passion. Linked to each other, they represent both the supreme forces of creation and also the driving force in the intimate union of beings.
In this talk of 52 minutes, Michel Cazenave revisits the myth of Aphrodite (Venus in Roman mythology). And by linking her to the archetypal mother goddess, he finds the key into the archetype of the androgyne and the process of individuation, so dear to Jungian psychology.
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By : Philippe Moingeon
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Monday, 26 November 2007 01:00 |
 What is a myth? Why and how does it manifest? What can be its utility to modern man? To Philippe Moingeon, which explores the relations of tradition and modernity, the use of symbolical forms enables myth to constitute a remarkable tool to reach knowledge.
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