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Jung's psychology and the study of myth
Rajcok, Paul J.
Rajcok, Paul J.
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1982
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Jung,Psychology,Myth,Dream,Folklore,Mythology
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Rajcok, Paul J. (1982). Jung's psychology and the study of myth. -- Lambda Alpha Journal of Man, v.14, p.5-24.
Abstract
Paper provides an interesting counterpoint to structuralist
analyses. Author attempts to correct some fundamental
misunderstandings of the Jungian notion of the collective
unconscious and its relationship to cultural expressions
of this collective unconscious as myth. Myth,
according to Rajcok, is both ordered by its parent culture
and orders that culture by reinforcing the expressed
patterns. Interestingly, Jung's archetypes serve more as
Kantain categories than as the dialectical moments envisioned
by Levi-Strauss.
What emerges is a Jungian theory far more accessible
to anthropologists,which parallels classical structuralism
in accounting for variations in the form of particular myths,
but preserves the integrity of the individual mind by differentiating
the collective and specific unconsciousness.
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Lambda Alpha Anthropology Honors Society at Wichita State University
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v.14
v.14
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0047-3928