Contents

Introduction: In defense of theorizing about myth

 1 The leading modern theories of myth

 2 Psychologizing myth: From Freud to Winnicott

 3 Rank on myth

 4 Freud’s and Jung’s twentieth-century view of myth

 5 Greek myth and psychoanalysis

 6 On hero myths

 7 King Saul as mythic hero

 8 Myth and science: Their varying relationships

 9 On myth as ideology: Lincoln’s Theorizing Myth

10 On myth and politics

11 Do Hollywood stars bring myth back to the world?

12 Does the Gaia hypothesis bring myth back to the world?

Index