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A Myth (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠no life for us: only the myth lives in the myth.

A Myth (n.) cannot ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠hold itself up without a ritual to support — and psychoanalysis is not the ritual of Oedipus.

A Myth (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not express the earth but the conditions under which the earth fades before the despot; tragedy expresses the despot fading before the city-state.

A Myth (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Plato does not interrupt division but completes it: it is the story of a foundation, building the model by which pretenders are judged.

A Myth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not reconquered by going back; one encounters it anew when time quakes at its foundations.

A Myth (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠Plato is the story-repetition of a foundation: a circle that turns and returns, allotting lots, giving division a ground on which to measure claims.

A Myth (n.) does ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not express or invert real relations; it conditions — only myth can determine the intensive conditions of a system in conformity with indigenous thought and practice.

A Myth (n.) among ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Dogon amounts to a mythical Weismannism: the son, sharing the placenta's substance, is his mother's twin — myth and science saying the same thing from a great distance.

A Myth (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠taken as the measure of the unconscious without anyone asking why: Jung reads it upward to restore religiosity, Freud downward to confirm his atheism — both inject the religious into the unconscious.