Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 1986
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AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 148, pp. 105-113 (1986).
Physics
Course Design And Evaluation
Scientific paper
Heinlein's ``Requiem'' depicts Delos D. Harriman's longing for the Moon. Reaching his final resting place on the Moon is, to Harriman, coming home. Why does Harriman long for the Moon as one longs for home? This question is addressed using the interpretive method of James Hillman's archetypal psychology. To Hillman the Moon metaphorically represents the imagination. If Moon is imagination, then Harriman's desire to walk the surface of the Moon amounts to a desire to be ``grounded'' in the imagination; and his desire to view the Earth as a lunar ``satellite'' amounts to a desire to overcome the alienation between the imagination and the ``natural [earthly] perspective,'' which recognizes as real only the physical and the noetic, neglecting the imaginal. This understanding of the longing for a home on the Moon suggests some potential benefits for actual Moon colonization.
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