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mythology

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Zeus

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Greek mythology

is a body of informing ideas or conceptions or images which hold a society together and unify its social vision.

I mean by a mythology a body of informing ideas or conceptions or images which hold a society together and unify its social vision.

is, as a mode of thinking, more expressive and more exact than the kind of abstract scientific terminology which wrongly thinks that, one fine day, it will be resolved into algebraic equations.

I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations. Carl Jung

is built to the model of a common social vision produced by the imagination.

built to the model of a common social vision produced by the imagination.

is explored by science... it belongs rather to the dream world, not so much to the world after death as to the world after dark.

explored by science... it belongs rather to the dream world, not so much to the world after death as to the world after dark.

is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

is literature, more particularly fiction, works of literature that tell stories.

literature, more particularly fiction, works of literature that tell stories.

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mythology