Robert Alan Segal

This title introduces a wide array of approaches to understanding myth from varied disciplines. It uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse the ideas and individual approaches and theories of theorists such as Sigmund Freud, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes. This new edition considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth, as well as the future study of myth.

A Very Short Introduction

Myth

An Introduction

Joseph Campbell

Theories of Myth: Ritual and myth

A collection of essays analyzing the leading theories of myth. It surveys the contours of this ongoing discussion, comparing and evaluating the theories of Edward Tylor, William Robertson Smith, James Frazer, Jane Harrison, Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung, and others.

Theorizing about Myth

Le mythe est le miroir de nos sociétés ! C'est ce que prouve Robert Segal qui se livre, à travers cet ouvrage, à un passionnant état des lieux sur l'origine, la fonction et la place des mythes dans notre quotidien. Avec Le Mythe, ces récits familiers sont enfin déconstruits pour mieux éclairer leurs paradoxes et leur apport à nos représentations sociales : religion, science, philosophie, littérature, psychologie ou anthropologie. Cet ouvrage offre une ambitieuse revue de trois cents ans de réflexion sur ce thème, et nous introduit aux travaux des plus grands auteurs du XXe siècle comme Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Bruno Bettelheim ou Sigmund Freud. L'auteur complète ce panorama par un portrait mordant de la figure de la star hollywoodienne, incarnation du mythe à notre époque. Cet ouvrage s'adresse aux passionnés de littérature et de mythologie, mais également aux anthropologues, étudiants ou confirmés. Il a connu un grand succès populaire et universitaire en Grande-Bretagne et aux Etats-Unis.

Une introduction

Le Mythe

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Psychology and Myth

Theories of Myth: Anthropology, folklore and myth

Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Dumézil, and Propp

Structuralism in Myth

Carl Gustav Jung

At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? What is its origin? What is its function? Theories of myth may differ in 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.

Robert Alan Segal

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