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Title |
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Are There Modern Myths for Eliade? - Myth Theorized |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Robert Segal; University of Aberdeen; United Kingdom |
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Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
theory of myth; psychoanalysis; Freud; Otto Rank; Jung; Joseph Campbell; Oedipus; EB Tylor; JG Frazer; hero myths; Lord Raglan; Levi-Strauss; Karl Popper; Bruce Lincoln; Robert Ellwood; Girard; Burkert; Winnicott; James Lovelock; Gaia |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Myth; Theory of Myth |
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Description |
Abstract |
In chapter seven I ask whether Eliade’s theory actually allows for modern myths, even in light of Eliade’s fundamental claim that moderns, just like all other humans, have and must have myth. I maintain that by his own criteria, modern myths fail to qualify as myths. They take place in the present or the future as often as in the past. If myths do take place in the past, reading or enacting them does not quite carry one back to the time of the myth. The characters in modern myths are humans rather than gods. To be present at the time and place of a modern myth is not to experience divinity. The characters are not usually models to be emulated. They do not always or even often establish a custom, a law, or an institution that continues to exist. Antithetically to Eliade stand Tylor and Frazer, for whom there are no modern myths. For them, modern myths” would be a contradiction in terms. Also contrary to Eliade stand Jung and Campbell, both of whom allow for wholly secular myths and so who do not, like Eliade, seek religiosity in modern myths. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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03-Feb-2023 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/37561 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.37561 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Myth Theorized |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |