At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its
subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function?
Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of
these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which
of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few
that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume
collects and organizes the key passages on myth by Jung himself and
by some of the most prominent Jungian writers after him: Erich
Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, and James Hillman. The book
synthesizes the discovery of myth as a way of thinking, where it
becomes a therapeutic tool providing an entrance to the
unconscious.
In the first selections, Jung begins to differentiate his theory
from Freud's by asserting that there are fantasies and dreams of an
"impersonal" nature that cannot be reduced to experiences in a
person's past. Jung then asserts that the similarities among myths
are the result of the projection of the collective rather than the
personal unconscious onto the external world. Finally, he comes to
the conclusion that myth originates and functions to satisfy the
psychological need for contact with the unconscious--not merely to
announce the "existence" of the unconscious, but to let us
"experience "it.
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