The Eternal Resurgences of Myth

Abstract

The article tried to show that myth appears as an attempt to construct, at the intuitive-figurative level of perception, the integral image of the Universe, capable of generalizing the empirical experience and completing its limits. The mythical way of conceptualizing is associated with a certain type of thinking, which is specific to primitive thinking in general and to certain levels of consciousness, especially collective consciousness. The premises of mythological thinking as archaic thinking are the non-isolation of man from nature, the features of the diffusion of thought, the inseparability of the logical sphere from the emotional one. Hence the humanization of nature, the metaphorical comparison and even the identification of natural objects with cultural ones, the universal personification, the representation of the universal as a sensitive concrete, the distinction of an object and a sign. A feature of mythological consciousness is the establishment of imaginary connections between various phenomena. Elements of mythological thought persist in Modern Mass Consciousness Myths in the figurative sense are divorced from reality, concepts, and rational states of consciousness, and are in a perpetual, eternal evolution.