Download or read book Essays on a Science of Mythology written by Carl Gustav Jung and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint work on two central themes in mythology and in the human unconscious by a great psychologist and a great classical scholar originally appeared in German in 1940-41. First published in English in 1949, this "introduction" to mythology as a science has gone through several editions and has become a classic in both its fields. C. Kerényi has contributed monographs on the Primordial Child in Primordial Times, and on the Kore, or Maiden Goddess. C. G. Jung amplifies these archetypal themes with essays on the Psychology of the Child Archetype and the Psychological Aspects of the Kore. The two myth-themes meets in the Mysteries of Eleusis, when, in Kerényi's interpretation, the mother-daughter goddess bears a divine child. --