2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
One of the most significant stages on the "hero's path" for me is the "Call" stage, when an intention is formed to follow the "voice of the heart", to follow my vocation, to abandon the established order and decide to take a step into the unknown. Often we get stuck for years at this stage, pretending not to hear the call, and not daring to do what we really want. What happens when we refuse the call over and over again? Campbell is very beautiful and powerful about it. Unfortunately, in the Russian translation, the original meaning was somewhat lost. But if you understand the inconsistencies in translation, it becomes very clear what price the hero (and any of us) will have to pay if they do not respond to the call.
Original: "Refusal of the summons converts the adventure into its negative. Walled in boredom, hard work, or" culture, "the subject loses the power of significant affirmative action and becomes a victim to be saved. His flowering world becomes a wasteland of dry stones and his life feels meaningless-even though, like King Minos, he may through titanic effort succeed in building an empire of renown. Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth of cyclopean walls to hide from him his Minotaur. All he can do is create new problems for himself and await the gradual approach of his disintegration "(Campbell J. (2004) The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Princeton: Princeton University Press, p. 54)
Translation: "If you do not respond to the call, then the adventure will turn into its opposite. Immersed in everyday worries and hard work, in the so-called" culture ", a person loses the ability to make fateful decisive actions and becomes a victim, which already someone else must come His blooming world turns into a desert, and life seems meaningless - even if he, like King Minos, with titanic efforts can create a prosperous state. Whatever house he builds, it will be a house of death: a labyrinth with giant walls, from his eyes of the Minotaur. The only thing that remains for him is to create more and more new problems for himself and in anticipation of the moment when he and his world will crumble to dust. " (Campbell J. (2018). Thousand-Faced Hero. SPb: Peter, p. 54)
- Refusal of the summons (in the lane. If you do not respond to the call) - if we talk about very literal translation and semantics, then this expression is very often applied to refusal to appear on a subpoena. The plural (summonS) indicates that the call is heard repeatedly and the reckoning, which will be discussed at the end, comes precisely when the call has been persistently ignored several times. This is a very significant moment, since the call sounds more than once, as if someone was very interested in us responding to it (like in Harry Potter, owls, each time delivering more and more letters about his enrollment in Hogwarts). The word "summons" seems to me very important here, because, unlike "call", it has a more official and even solemn meaning, as if it really was a call from above, and not just an invitation to go somewhere. This voice (the voice of summon) cannot be applied to the boy from the next doorway, who calls to chase the ball, it is impossible to tell him with impunity that he is busy and doing his homework or watching a cartoon. By repeatedly refusing to obey the inner summon, we do the same when we refuse to obey the order of the court.
- converts the adventure into its negative - what is the opposite of an adventure? here I think about the meaning of the word “negative”: as if whatever the person who refused the call would do in the future, everything would turn into a minus, all his further moves “would be used against him”. In literature, negative characters are also "negative characters", and then one can fantasize that the inner character who previously called to respond to the call will now turn into one who will avenge the refusal, and all that could be good, will turn into something negative.
- Walled in is a very powerful verb meaning "to be walled up." This is exactly what we do with our energy and creativity when we refuse to follow the call. Routine, hard work, demands and norms of society - all this forms the brickwork behind which we end up, cut off and isolated from our inner world."Walled in" as opposed to "immersion" assumes death, if we remember that immuring was a type of death penalty, when a person placed in a wall slowly died from lack of air, hunger and dehydration. And the less space left, the faster death occurs. Why are we being punished like this? Maria Louise von Franz has the answer to this question. In “The Phenomena of Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales,” she writes: “according to Jung, the gravest sin is not wanting to achieve awareness, although there is such a possibility. This is why Jung says that psychologically one of the most evil and destructive forces is unrealized creativity. If someone has a creative gift and, due to his laziness or for any other reason, does not use it, this psychic energy turns into a real poison. " And to us, it is true, it may seem that we have plunged, plunged headlong into work, but in reality - we are enclosing ourselves with blank walls.
- to hide from him his Minotaur (in the lane in which the Minotaur will be hidden from his eyes): if literally, then “to hide his Minotaur from him”. It seems to me that this possessive pronoun his (his) is very important. It indicates that this labyrinth turns out to be nothing more than self-deception, an attempt to escape from oneself. And the Minotaur is just an image of how something beautiful can turn into extremely negative. According to the myth, the Minotaur was born from the union of the queen of Pasithea and the white bull, which King Minos, her husband, was to sacrifice as a sign of his service to the god Poseidon. But the bull turned out to be so magnificent that Minos did not want to part with him. As a punishment for this, Poseidon instilled in Pasiphea a passion for the bull, as a result of which the terrible Minotaur appeared. That is why the Minotaur is "his", Minos, since his act became the reason for the appearance of the Minotaur. Refusal to serve produces monsters. And no matter what project we develop, no matter what building we build, there will always be a cannibal with a bull's head in the center.
- await the gradual approach of his disintegration (in the translation, in anticipation of the moment when he and his world will crumble to dust): under “disintegration”, it seems to me, is meant here precisely the disintegration of the personality. Having given up the call, the personality, indeed, will gradually begin to disintegrate, because it is impossible to exist “behind the wall,” without access to vital forces. Having rejected "positive disintegration" (when, at the stage of accepting the call, we decide to abandon the rigid, outdated, partly false I), we find ourselves forced to wait for a slow and inevitable self-destruction. Like in the movie "The Brothers Grimm", when a mirror breaks, and with it the evil queen, who imprisoned herself in a tower in the hope of gaining eternal youth, is scattered into small fragments.
And if we translate this fragment into the language of psychology, then, as a result of the refusal of the call, what awaits us is what Edward Edinger writes about in “The Ego and the Archetype”: “In a state of alienation, the ego not only loses its identification with the Self, which is desirable, but also loses its connection with her, which is highly undesirable. The connection between the ego and the Self is essential for mental health and well-being. It creates a sense of support for the ego, a structure of security, providing energy, interest, meaning and purpose. Disruption of communication leads to feelings of emptiness, despair, meaninglessness, and in extreme cases to psychosis and suicide."
In fairy tales there are many examples of what happens to the heroes if they refuse to answer the call. These are warning tales. And in the finale, such heroes most often face death …
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