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To Test the Limits of Our Endurance (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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To Test the Limits of Our Endurance (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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A new approach to culture and cultural patterns is elucidated
through relating a theory of personality and social characters to
the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures are classified along a
continuum and their relationship to a given personality structure
is based on the assumptions that cultures possess generalized
traits, and that these traits relate to characters of individuals.
Cultures, like man, pass through the age phases of childhood,
youth, manhood, culminating in old age. It is the cultural goals
and the means to achieve them that become the culture pattern. What
are these cultural goals? How do we achieve them? Every society and
culture has its own indigenous mythology. Myths move in time from
sacred myths recorded before history to modern myths, like master
detectives Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, or the master spy,
John Le Carre's Smiley, or even Superman, who realizes the dreams
of omnipotence among the downtrodden, henpecked inhabitants of
Metropolis. Thus myths provide meaning and motivation for human
behavior.
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