a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, especially one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature. stories or matter of th...
The story might be accepted as true and serve to explain some fact about the world, or it might be known to be made-up but nevertheless illustrates something about people or history.Definitions of myth noun a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a ...
Just over 20 years ago, Alan J. Almquist and John E. Cronin (1988) published an article entitled “Fact, Fancy, and Myth on Human Evolution.” In it, they presented results from a nationwide survey of college students conducted over ten years (1974–1983) that attempted to identify student...
The authors discuss the prevalence of a male-dominated social system in Japan and the motherhood myth created by them, which has led to a lack of women's participation in Japanese society. The meaning of 'mother' in contemporary modern Japan is described. The authors say that Japanese women ...
It's true that we use different parts of our brains for different things.We use our left side for language more,and our right side when we need to pay attention.But there is no fact that creative people use the right side more,or that scientific people use the left side more. We've...
Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey Featuring Carl Jung. The two types tie together when discussing archetypes and tales of mythology and seeing them as metaphors for the human condition. In this way myth (mythology) can be useful for understanding deep truths, it isn’t exactly “a fact”, ...
For Freud and the late nineteenth century, the task was the discovery of fundamental laws in science, be it physics, biology, or psychology. The challenge for our new century is how to integrate complex multiplicity, where specific variations are significant. For Freud, ultimate meaning resided ...
WhUe Austin employs Lacan, to be sure, the misleading book jacket may be said to reveal a current bias in academia against mythcritical and religious diought, in favor of deconstructive and Marxist modes of discourse. Austin, in fact, attacks Lacan's notion of the fragmented subject by caU...
Both names are partial Latin translations and come from the Arabic phrase al-kiffah al-janūbiyy, which means “the southern pan (of the scales).” An older Latin name for the star is Lanx Australis, or “the southern scale.” Alpha Librae is in fact a multiple system composed of an ...
Myth, magic and meaning. Integrative medicine--the way of the future. Sommer SJ. SJ Sommer - 《Lamp》 被引量: 2发表: 1995年 Myth, Metaphors, and Meaning In post-medieval times, art became sacrosanct rather than special as it had been regarded in previous cultures. This notion still drive...