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Dionysus in the mirror: the mask, the Daimon and the metaphysics of the "other-than-self"

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The mask and the metaphysics of the "other-than-self": the youthful initiations in ancient Rome and the Dionysian symbolisms according to Kรกroli Kerรฉnyi and Walter Otto; L'"archetypality and paradigmatic nature of the archaic man "who, according to Mircea Eliade," recognizes himself "truly himself", only to the extent that he ceases to be "; the Daimon and the "Antithetic Mask" in WB Yeats's Vision; Dionysus in the mirror, Vishnu who dreaming creates the countless worlds and Thomas Ligotti's "solipsistic god of dreams".

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WB Yeats, William Blake and the sacred power of the imagination

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Although they lived one century after the other, in the biographies of Blake and Yeats it is possible to glimpse two parallel lives, based on some specular guiding ideas that guided their artistic and literary activity: the ideal of " religion of art โ€, the saving mission of the artist, the emphasis placed on the imaginative faculty for the purposes of the process of self-realization and the announcement of the advent of a new era to come.

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