SOURCE: "Cosmogony," in The Eternal Drama: The Inner Meaning of Greek Mythology, edited by Deborah A. Wesley, Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1994, pp. 1-17.
In the following essay, Edinger offers a psychological reading of the Greek creation myths, noting the prevalence of the idea that when a being is brought into consciousness, a split into opposites results, followed by conflict between those opposites.
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