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Page 1: Theories of Myth. MYTH Myth: type of non-historical traditional tale Myths must be good enough to become traditional, worth memorizing & passing down

Theories of Myth

Page 2: Theories of Myth. MYTH Myth: type of non-historical traditional tale Myths must be good enough to become traditional, worth memorizing & passing down

MYTH

• Myth: type of non-historical traditional tale

• Myths must be good enough to become traditional, worth memorizing & passing down from generation to generation

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Myth Transmission

• Narrative force/charm• Functional relevance

– Explanation– Palliation– INSTITUTION– emotion

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Who decides what myths to pass on?

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Interested Parts of Community?

• Adult Males?• Rich & Powerful?• Ruling Body?• Religious Hierarchy?

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Myths for the Individual

• Focus on Individual• Acceptance by Community acting

as Individuals (Freudian Wish-Fulfillment)

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Purposes of Myth?

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Purposes of Myth?

• Entertainment• Communication• Instruction

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Types of Myth

• Cosmogony• Theogony• Metamorphosis• Aetiology • Hero Stories

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Global Themes of Myth

1) Historians of Religion2) Antirationalists

AllegoricistsPsychologists (Freud, Jung)

3) AnthropologistsMythopoeicists (Levi-Bruhl, Biblical

Scholars)Structuralists (Levi-Strauss)

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Historians of Religion

• Cambridge School• French

Sociologists• Myth closely

dependent on Ritual

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Allegoricists

• Myth as allegory of nature or meteorological events

• Myth as primitive science; religious or magical vs. scientific explanation

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Psychologists: Sigmund Freud

• Dream Symbols• Myth<=>Dreams• Myth as waking

person’s attempt to systematize incoherent visions and impulses of sleep world

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Wish fulfillment

• Imagination of children, neurotics, primitive tribes

• Oedipus Complex• Son kills Father to

possess Mother• Guilt & Sin• God as Father to be

appeased

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Psychologists: Jung

• Myth as projection of the collective unconscious of the race

• Unconscious symbols upon which society is based

• Symbols as categorization of roles

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Symbols as Categorization of Roles

• Gender Roles– Man– Woman– Great Mother

• Age Roles– Wise old man

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Anthropologists: Lucien Levi-Bruhl

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Anthropologists: Lucien Levi-Bruhl

• Mythopoeic

• expressive, poetic & mystical

• active participation with phenomena

• anti-empirical

Modern

• logical & rational

• explanation of phenomena

• empirical

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Anthroplogists: Claude Levi-Strauss

• Myth like language• Meaning from relationship between elements

• Similar relationships outside myth?

• Paired oppositions• Myth as logical model

mediating between opposites

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Eros/Amor/Cupid

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Venus and Adonis

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Death of Adonis

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