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Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, dating back some 100,000 years.

Mythology --- Myth

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Notre société contemporaine renferme encore de nombreux rites et mythes. Leurs formes ont évolué, mais ils remplissent les mêmes fonctions qu’autrefois : rassembler, célébrer les communautés, régénérer les liens sociaux tout en faisant rêver. Cet ouvrage propose une série d’analyses courtes, ironiques et poétiques. Une décennie de chroniques médiatiques est proposée, rassemblant des textes parus dans des journaux et magazines français, actualisés ici. Ces textes sont rangés en trois grandes parties : « Au fil du calendrier », « Médias et technologies », et « Nouvelles tendances sociales ». Ils épinglent l’air du temps, sondent nos imaginaires, décodent modes et tendances, en donnant de la profondeur à l’apparente surface des choses. Ces exercices de style, légers et profonds, s’attachent à décrypter le sens des modes, des mythes et des rites qui jalonnent nos calendriers et égaient notre quotidien. La finalité ? Expliquer et analyser, en faisant sourire et réfléchir. Les rites et les mythes donc, mais aussi les médias, les technologies, les personnalités ou les tendances émergentes sont décortiqués et épinglés à tour de rôle. On reprend conscience, au fil du propos, de l’importance des imaginaires et de la prégnance de la pensée magique dans notre société désacralisée, en apparence seulement.

Rites and ceremonies --- Myth --- France

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Myth --- Magic --- Mythology, Classical --- History --- History

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What are myths? Are there 'correct' and 'incorrect' versions? And where do they come from? These and many other related questions are addressed this book, a collection of critical studies of the contents of some of the most famous mythographic works from ancient, classical, medieval, and modern times, and of the methods, motivations, and ideological implications underlying these literary records of myth. While there are many works on myth and mythology, and on the study of this genre of traditional narrative, there is little scholarship to date on the venerable activity of actually writing down the myths (mythography), attested throughout history, from the cultures of the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean to those of the modern world.

Comparative religion --- History of civilization --- Literature --- anno 500-1499 --- Literature and myth --- Myth --- Mythologists --- Littérature et mythe. --- Mythe --- Mythologues --- History. --- Histoire. --- History --- Myth - History --- Literature and myth - History --- Mythologists - History

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At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth studies. The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range (including ancient Egypt, India, Japan, nineteenth-century France, and twentieth-century Germany) and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethe's opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction, and from William Blake's visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus, Orpheus, the Scapegoat, and the Hero, while mobilising Freudian, Jungian, object relations, and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches.

Myth in literature. --- Subconsciousness. --- Unconscious (Psychology) --- Unconsciousness --- Psychology