Freudian and Jungian approaches to myth

For both Freud and Jung, modernity is distinctive in its decisive separation of the outer from the inner, which, oversimplified, means of the physical from the psychological. For neither Jung nor Freud does the surrender of religion to science mean the surrender of myth. Even though for both Freud and Jung myth has traditionally been part of religion, they are able to decouple myth from religion and thereby save it from science. Freud and Jung save myth both by widening the range of myth to include secular myths and, more, by interpreting myth as other than an explanation of events in the physical world. For both Freud and Jung, myth is about a state of mind—not a conscious state, as for Marlowe’s Mephistopheles and for Milton, but an unconscious one. The classical Freudian approach to myth takes myth as wish fulfilment. Unlike Freudians, Jungians have taken myth positively from the outset

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• Myth

  Open Access•Etunimetön Frog, Frog Frog•Humanities•2018

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