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The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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- In a word: the first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary effects to those causal zones of the psyche where the difficulties really reside, and there to clarify the difficulties, eradicate them in his own case (i.e., give battle to the nursery demons of his local culture) and break through to the undistorted, direct experience and assimilation of what C. G. Jung has called "the archetypal images."†
p. 12.9assimilation = the process of taking in, transforming, or fitting in
- The archetypes to be discovered and assimilated are precisely those that have inspired, throughout the annals of human culture, the basic images of ritual, mythology, and vision.†
p. 14.1 *assimilated = took in, transformed, or fit in
- The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream, discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.†
p. 89.7assimilates = takes in, transforms, or fits in
- We are taken from the mother, chewed into fragments, and assimilated to the world-annihilating body of the ogre for whom all the precious forms and beings are only the courses of a feast; but then, miraculously reborn, we are more than we were.†
p. 138.1assimilated = took in, transformed, or fit in
- The values and distinctions that in normal life seem important disappear with the terrifying assimilation of the self into what formerly was only otherness.†
p. 188.4assimilation = the process of taking in, transforming, or fitting in
- In the first are encountered the instructive experiences of life; in the second these are digested, assimilated to the inner forces of the dreamer; while in the third all is enjoyed and known unconsciously, in the "space within the heart," the room of the inner controller, the source and end of all.†
p. 227.9assimilated = took in, transformed, or fit in
- The soul gravitates after death to the story appropriate to its relative density, there to digest and assimilate the whole meaning of its past life.†
p. 318.3assimilate = take in, transform, or fit in
- I shall not be dragged back by the arms, and none shall lay violent hold upon my hands.... As in the much later Buddhist image of the Bodhisattva within whose nimbus stand five hundred transformed Buddhas, each attended by five hundred Bodhisattvas, and each of these, in turn, by innumerable gods, so here, the soul comes to the fullness of its stature and power through assimilating the deities that formerly had been thought to be separate from and outside of it.†
p. 320.5assimilating = taking in, transforming, or fitting in
Definitions:
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(1)
(assimilate) take in, transform, or fit inThe exact meaning of assimilate can depend upon its context. For example:
- "assimilate to a new country" -- fitting into a prevailing culture
- "assimilate the information" -- transform information within the mind into understanding
- "assimilate the food" -- transform nutrients within the body for its use
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)