Sorry, had to redraft. My app is not having fun with the edits.
A thought I've been chewing on after a particularly vivid dream: I wonder if the minotaur in the maze was a symbol of the internal human struggle between our needs in both a wild and a built world and how those structures, like cities, are overwhelming and oppressive while simultaneously being isolating and entrapping. Or perhaps a symbol of domesticates being trapped between two worlds...
@NikaShilobod one thing I really appreciate about her approach (not just to the minotaur but in general) is that she attempts to interpret the narratives ecologically and not psychologically. So the myths become not so much about me and my pathologized experience of my self and the world, but about the larger context in which I take part and am a part and that is a part of me (if that makes sense)
I'm open to more takes. I haven't looked at Campbell's stuff in at least a decade and I'd love some new interpretations. His models can be useful for a perspective to add to the bucket, but of course they are dated now.
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