Towards a New Definition of Myth

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  • 神話理論の新定義に向けて
  • シンワ リロン ノ シン テイギ ニ ムケテ

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What does Myth mean and what is its purpose? Since 20th Century, when Absolute Truths began to be questioned, the hidden ideology beyond mythological discourse has been the focus of a great number of Mythologists researches. Gender Studies or Marxist Criticism emphasized the importance of the discourse behind the words, to be found in any kind of literary production.As for Japanese Myth, some aspects about Amaterasu or Izanami figures can lead us to think about the role of sexual repression, as much as women coercion, in the society-modelling aspect of Myths.Another point to be considered in this paper is the role of alternative discourses, as opposed to the Ideology of Power, and its suffocation−being labeled as Rebels or Alienated, in terms of hidden discourse. Those alternative ideologies leading, by the other hand, to Antipsychiatry or New Age Myths.

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