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Anthropology

Hekate

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12. Enjoy. If you like a feminist psychological interpretation, Maureen Murdoch's "The Heroine's Journey"...

Reply to alittlelark (Reply #10)

Tue Jul 29, 2025, 12:43 PM

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…utilizes this myth extensively. Short version: Campbell’s “The Hero’s Journey” wasn’t written with women in mind.

What I loved about the Inanna myth when I discovered it in the 1990s was realizing that it lay buried and unknown for a couple of millenia while the Greco-Roman myths lived on in the West and finally formed the foundation of Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis. It blew my mind to think about the implications.

This is cheering me up.

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