On ancestral and contemporary mythologies
Keywords:
myth, mythology, creative processes, Star Wars, narrativesAbstract
This essay discusses the classification of narratives created from the 20th Century as contemporary mythologies. The theory reviews the concepts about myth in Eliade, Cassirer, Jung, and Durand to understand how these concepts apply to narratives that have been considered contemporary or modern mythologies, such as Star Wars. Methodologically a comparative study is developed between Star Wars and elements from ancestral mythologies. The conclusion shows that, even though there are points of convergence, the referred contemporary mythology diverges from ancestral mythology in regard to the outreach of its psychological and social function as such about the creed.
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