Mit i psihoanaliza

master's thesis

• Title: Mit i psihoanaliza : Tumačenje univerzalnih mitoloških motiva iz perspektive jungovske psihoanalize i kognitivne lingvistike
• Title (english): Myth and psychoanalysis : Interpretation of universal mythological motifs from the perspective of Jungian psychoanalysis and cognitive linguistics
• Author: Arda Tanković Dürukan
• Mentor: Željka Matijašević (mentor)
• Committee member: Ana Tomljenović (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Kristina Grgić (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; (Department of Comparative literature); Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2022-11-17, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: HUMANISTIC SCIENCES; Interdisciplinary Humanistic Studies

Abstract

Analiza mitova i iz njih proizišle mitološke građe jedna je od najstarijih tema ljudskog promišljanja umjetnosti i kulture koja ih okružuje. Tradicija proučavanja mitologije, u većoj ili manjoj mjeri, prožima gotovo čitavu povijest ljudskog intelektualnog rada, kulminirajući obnovljenim interesom u radovima humanističkih mislilaca prošloga stoljeća. Potpomognuti raznim novim teorijskim pravcima, interdisciplinarnim suradnjama i uvidima prirodnih znanosti, moderni teoretičari mita u njemu pronalaze do sad neslućeno mnogo odgovora, ali i pitanja, u vezi tog izvornog prafenomena ljudske kulture. Jedno od najzanimljivijih, ali i naizgled najmisterioznijih, jest zapažena učestalost ponavljanja istih mitoloških motiva u kulturama koje zbog geografske i temporalne udaljenosti nisu mogle imati dodirnih točaka.
U ovome radu ponuditi ćemo interpretaciju tih univerzalnih motiva dvojakim instrumentarijem psihoanalize i kognitivne lingvistike, smatrajući kako nam uvidi u prirodu ljudske psihologije i jezika kao medija njezina izražavanja omogućava teorijski okvir sposoban za obuhvaćanje i tumačenje spomenutih mitskih univerzalija. Psihoanalitička strana analize prvenstveno će biti fokusirana oko radova Carla Gustava Junga i njegovih ideja kolektivno nesvjesnog i arhetipova, i Ericha Fromma i njegove teorije univerzalnih jezičnih simbola. Lingvistička analiza biti će temeljena na idejama kognitivne lingvistike, poput inherentne metaforičnosti misli, utjelovljenosti ljudskog uma i misaonih obrazaca, te tendencije ka projekciji poznatih domena znanja na svijet koji nas okružuje.
U finalnom djelu rada provesti ćemo analizu konkretnih mitoloških motiva, fokusirajući se na mitologije Bliskog Istoka – babilonsku i egipatsku, i manifestacije arhetipa Sebstva koje u njima nalazimo.

Abstract (english)

Analysis of myths and the related mythological material they produce is one of the oldest topics in human consideration of arts and the culture that encompasses them. To a greater or lesser extent, the tradition of studying mythology permeates nearly the entirety of the history of the human intellectual pursuit. The renewed interest in those studies culminated in the works of humanistic thinkers in the previous century. Myth, that original proto-phenomenon in human culture, has been closely examined by modern theoreticians of myth. The help of many new theoretical approaches, interdisciplinary collaborations and insights from natural sciences revealed an until-now unsuspected number of answers and questions concerning the myth.
One of the most thought-provoking, as well as (on the face of it) one of the most mysterious, of these questions is the noted frequency of repetition of the same mythological motifs in the cultures that couldn’t have had points of contact due to their geographical and temporal distances.
This work will offer an interpretation of those universal motifs using the tools of psychoanalysis and cognitive linguistics. The insights into the nature of human psychology and the language as the medium for its exploration hopes to offer a theoretical frame capable of encompassing and interpreting the aforementioned mythical universals. The psychoanalytical side of the analysis will focus on the works of Carl Gustav Jung, his ideas of collective unconscious and archetypes, and that of Erich Fromm and his theory of universal linguistic symbols. The linguistic analysis will be based upon principles of cognitive linguistics, such as the inherent metaphoric quality of thought, embodiment of the human mind and thought patterns and the tendency towards the projection of familiar domains of knowledge onto the world that surrounds us.
The final part of this paper will be composed of an analysis of concrete mythological works, with the centres of attention being the Middle East mythologies — Babylonian and Egyptian, and the manifestation of the archetype of Self that are observable in them.

• Keywords: mit; mitologija; psihoanaliza; kognitivna lingvistika; kolektivno nesvjesno; arhetip; projekcija; konceptualna metafora; Marduk; Horus
• Keywords (english): myth; mythology; psychoanalysis; cognitive linguistics; collective unconscious; archetype; projection; conceptual metaphor; Marduk; Horus
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:131:625361
• Study programme: Title: Comparative Literature (double major); Study programme type: university; Study level: graduate; Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra komparativne književnosti (magistar/magistra komparativne književnosti)
• Type of resource: Text
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• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2022-11-17 16:47:59