TY - CHAP
T1 - Jung on Myth
AU - Segal, Robert A.
PY - 2019/5/7
Y1 - 2019/5/7
N2 - This chapter begins by distinguishing nineteenth-century approaches to myth from twentieth-century ones. Freud and Jung are far more akin than distinct. They share the twentieth-century view that myth is other than the primitive counterpart to modern science. But going beyond fellow twentieth-century theorists, they reject both the nineteenth-century subject matter and the nineteenth-century function of myth. Not only is myth not about the physical world, but it is not an explanation of anything. Jung’s theory turns out to be pitted at least as much against nineteenth-century theorists like Tylor and, especially, Frazer as against Freud. The chapter takes Jung’s interpretation of the myth of the puer archetype, and in turn of Adonis as a case of a puer personality, to exemplify his distinctive approach to myth.
AB - This chapter begins by distinguishing nineteenth-century approaches to myth from twentieth-century ones. Freud and Jung are far more akin than distinct. They share the twentieth-century view that myth is other than the primitive counterpart to modern science. But going beyond fellow twentieth-century theorists, they reject both the nineteenth-century subject matter and the nineteenth-century function of myth. Not only is myth not about the physical world, but it is not an explanation of anything. Jung’s theory turns out to be pitted at least as much against nineteenth-century theorists like Tylor and, especially, Frazer as against Freud. The chapter takes Jung’s interpretation of the myth of the puer archetype, and in turn of Adonis as a case of a puer personality, to exemplify his distinctive approach to myth.
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/jung-philosophy
U2 - 10.4324/9780429261763
DO - 10.4324/9780429261763
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85066060181
SN - 9780367204846
SN - 9780367204839
T3 - Philosophy and Psychoanalysis
SP - 204
EP - 219
BT - Jung and Philosophy
A2 - Mills, Jon
PB - Routledge
CY - London
ER -