Psychology (New York: Harper & Row, 1975); David L. Miller, The New Polytheism (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1981).
Girard, Violence and the Sacred.
On the distinction between story and narrative, see Shlomith RimmonKenan, Narrative Fiction, 2nd edn. (London and New York: Routledge, 2002 [1st edn. 1983]), p. 3. On the yet further distinction among story, narrative, and plot – all of which I innocently use interchangeably – see Paul Cobley, Narrative (London and New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 4–7.
Kenneth Burke, The Rhetoric of Religion (Boston: Beacon Press, 1961); A Grammar of Motives (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945), pp. 430–40; ‘Myth, Poetry and Philosophy’, Journal of American Folklore, 73 (1960): pp. 283–306.
Tylor, Primitive Culture, 5th edn., I, pp. 281–2. Hero myths are a surprising category for someone for whom all myths are seemingly about physical events.
On the application of cognitive psychology to religion, under which would fall myth, see Pascal Boyer, The Naturalness of Religious Ideas
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).
Johann Georg von Hahn, Sagwissenschaftliche Studien (Jena: Mauke, 1876), p. 340; tr. Henry Wilson in John C. Dunlop, History of Prose Fiction, rev. Wilson (London: Bell, 1888), in an unnumbered attachment to the last page of vol. I.
Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, tr. Laurence Scott, 2nd edn., rev. and ed. Louis A. Wagner (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968 [1958]).
Otto Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, 1st edn., tr. F. Robbins and Smith Ely Jelliffe (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing, 1914).
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Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 1st edn. (New York: Pantheon Books, 1949).
Lord Raglan, The Hero (London: Methuen, 1936). Citations are from the reprint of Part 2, which is on myth, in Otto Rank et al., In Quest of the Hero (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990), pp. 89–175.
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Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, vols IV–V, Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, ed. and tr. James Strachey et al. (London: Hogarth Press and Institute of Psycho-Analysis 1953 [1913]).
Karl Abraham, Dreams and Myths, tr. William A. White (New York: Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing, 1913).
Myth
Rank, The Myth of the Birth of the Hero, 1st edn. Citations are from the reprint in Rank et al., In Quest of the Hero pp. 3–86.
See also Rank’s even more Oedipal The Incest Theme in Literature and Language, 1st edn., tr. Gregory Richter (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). See also Rank and Hanns Sachs,
The Significance of Psychoanalysis for the Mental Sciences, tr. Charles R. Payne (New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing, 1913). For post-Freudian Rank, see The Trauma of Birth, tr. not given (London: Kegan Paul; New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929).
On male creation myths, see Alan Dundes, ‘Earth-Driver: Creation of the Mythopoeic Male’, American Anthropologist, 64 (1962): 1032–51.
Jacob A. Arlow, ‘Ego Psychology and the Study of Mythology’, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 9 (1961): 371–93.
Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment (New York: Vintage Books, 1977 [1976]).
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Géza Róheim, ‘Psycho-Analysis and the Folk-Tale’, International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 3 (1922): 180–6; ‘Myth and Folk-Tale’, American Imago, 2 (1941): 266–79; The Riddle of the Sphinx, tr. R. Money-Kyrle (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1974 [1934]); Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore, ed. Alan Dundes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992).
Alan Dundes, Analytic Essays in Folklore (The Hague: Mouton, 1975); Interpreting Folklore (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980); Parsing through Customs (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987); Folklore Matters (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989).
On creation myths, see Erich Neumann, The Origins and History of Consciousness, tr. R. F. C. Hull (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1970 [1954]); Marie-Louise von Franz, Creation Myths, rev. edn. (Boston: Shambhala, 1995 [1st edn. (entitled Patterns of Creativity Mirrored in Creation Myths) 1972]).
Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Citations are from the second edition (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968).
On Adonis, see especially C. G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation, Collected Works of C. G. Jung, ed. Sir Herbert Read et al., tr. R. F. C. Hull et al., V, 2nd edn. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967 [1956]), pp. 219, 223 n. 32, 258–9, 343 n. 79.
On the archetype of the puer aeternus, see especially Jung, Symbols of Transformation, pp. 257–9, 340; ‘Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype’, in The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, IX, Part 1, 2nd edn. (Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press, 1968 [1959]), p. 106; Marie-Louise von Franz, Puer aeternus, 2nd edn. (Santa Monica, CA: Sigo,
1981 [1970]).
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On the archetype of the Great Mother, see especially Jung, ‘Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype’, pp. 75–110; Symbols of Transformation, pp. 207–444.
Myth
Chapter 7
Claude Lévi-Strauss, ‘The Structural Study of Myth’, Journal of American Folklore, 68 (1955): 428–44, reprinted in Myth: A Symposium, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1958), paperback (1965); also reprinted, slightly revised, in Lévi-Strauss, Structural Anthropology, tr. Claire Jacobsen and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (New York: Basic Books, 1961), chapter 11. Citations are from the Sebeok paperback.
Introduction to a Science of Mythology, tr. John and Doreen Weightman, 4 vols (New York: Harper & Row, 1969–81), paperback (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1970–82). Citations are from the paperback. The volumes are individually named: The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Origin of Table Manners, and
The Naked Man. ‘The Study of Asdiwal’, tr. Nicholas Mann, in The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism, ed. Edmund Leach (London: Tavistock, 1967), pp. 1–47. André Akoun et al., ‘A Conversation with Claude Lévi-Strauss’.
On Lévi-Strauss’ myth-ritualism, see ‘The Structural Study of Myth’; ‘Structure and Dialectics’, in his Structural Anthropology, chapter 12; ‘Comparative Religions of Nonliterate Peoples’, in his Structural Anthropology, II, tr. Monique Layton (New York: Basic Books, 1976), chapter 5.
Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale, tr. Laurence Scott, 2nd edn., rev. and ed. Louis A. Wagner (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968 [1958]); Georges Dumézil, Archaic Roman Religion, tr. Philip Krapp, 2 vols (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970).
Jean-Pierre Vernant, Myth and Thought among the Greeks. tr. not given (London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983); Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, tr. Janet
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Lloyd (Brighton: Harvester Press, 1981); Nicole Loraux, The Invention of Athens, tr. Alan Sheridan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987).
Marcel Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis, tr. Janet Lloyd (Hassock: Harvester Press; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1977).
Chapter 8
Malinowski, ‘Myth in Primitive Psychology’.
Georges A. Sorel, Reflections on Violence, tr. T. E. Hulme and
J. Roth (New York: Collier Books; London: Collier-Macmillan, 1961 [1950]).
On myth and ideology, see Ben Halpern, ‘‘‘Myth’’ and ‘‘Ideology’’ in Modern Usage’, History and Theory, 1 (1961): 129–49; Christopher G. Flood, Political Myth (New York: Routledge, 2001 [1996]).
Girard, Violence and the Sacred.
On matriarchy in Greece and elsewhere, see, classically, J. J. Bachofen, Myth, Religion, and Mother Right, tr. Ralph Manheim (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967).
Herodotus, The Histories, tr. Aubrey de Sélincourt, rev. and ed. A. R. Burn (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972 [1954]).
Aristotle, Constitution of Athens and Related Texts, tr. Kurt von Fritz and Ernst Kapp (New York: Hafner Press, 1974 [1950]).
Antony Andrewes, The Greeks (New York: Knopf, 1967).
Pierre Vidal-Naquet, ‘The Black Hunter and the Origin of the Athenian Ephebeia’, in R. L. Gordon (ed.), Myth, Religion and Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), pp. 147–62.
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