Myth (n.) is a way of venting unconscious desires and wishes by enacting them. If one became aware of its real meaning, it would fail. For freud, myth perpetuates, rather that helps cure neurosis.
A Myth (n.) is the distorted vestige of the wishful fantasies of whole nations — the age-long dreams of youthful humanity.
A Myth (n.) where a god kills his own sacred animal — which is himself — is the most extreme denial of the great crime: now God demands the sacrifice, and the sons are no longer responsible.
A Myth (n.) is not born of a craving to explain nature but of the same complexes that build dreams and symptoms.
Myth (n.) is probably a distorted vestige of the wishful phantasies of whole peoples, in Freud's phrase the secular dreams of a youthful humanity.
Myth (n.) was not read in the stars and brought down to earth, Freud held with Rank; it was human life projected onto the heavens.