More of "The Power of Myth"
Next Installment on "The Power of Myth" by Joseph Campbell
Campbell: There are two completely difference stages of marriage. First is the youthful marrirage following the wonderful impulse that nature has given us in the interplay of the sexes biologically in order to produce children.......Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Moyers: So marriage is utterly incompatiable with the idea of doing one's own thing.
Campbell: It's not simply one'swn thing, you see. It is, in a sense, doing one's own thing, but the one isn't just you, it's the two together as one. And that's a purely mythological image signifying the sacrifice of the visible entity for a transcendent good. This is something that becomes beautifully realized in the second stage of marriage, what I call the alchemical stage, of the two experiencing that they are one.
I just found this whole exchange deeply interesting and feel that it doesn't just apply to marriage but to relationships in general.
Campbell: There are two completely difference stages of marriage. First is the youthful marrirage following the wonderful impulse that nature has given us in the interplay of the sexes biologically in order to produce children.......Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.
Moyers: So marriage is utterly incompatiable with the idea of doing one's own thing.
Campbell: It's not simply one'swn thing, you see. It is, in a sense, doing one's own thing, but the one isn't just you, it's the two together as one. And that's a purely mythological image signifying the sacrifice of the visible entity for a transcendent good. This is something that becomes beautifully realized in the second stage of marriage, what I call the alchemical stage, of the two experiencing that they are one.
I just found this whole exchange deeply interesting and feel that it doesn't just apply to marriage but to relationships in general.