RT Article
T1 "Heroic struggle": A medieval and modern dilemma
JF Journal of religion and health
VO 27
IS 2
SP 143
OP 153
A1 Paris, William A.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V.
YR 1988
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1669110451
AB In the medieval tale ofSir Gawain and The Green Knight there is a portrait of an archetypal hero who succumbs to the pressures of living up to his reputation by resorting to behavior which compromises the code of ethics of knighthood. The lives of contemporary men and women are much more complex by comparison, though not always quite so dramatic. The pressures we face on a daily basis are cumulatively greater. Choices we make may be determined by our need to filter the realities of our world through a "characterological lie" which we have fashioned in ourselves as a way of protecting a vulnerable psyche from the truths of existence. Events in this fourteenth-century narrative are reexamined in the light of Dr. Ernest Becker'sThe Denial of Death, which strongly implicates the confrontation between the individual and the environment.
K1 Archetypal Hero
K1 Daily Basis
K1 Heroic Struggle
K1 Modern Dilemma
K1 sThe Denial
DO 10.1007/BF01532071