STRUCTURI ARHETIPALE ȘI FUNCȚII ALE MITULUI ÎN ACTUALITATE
ARCHETYPAL STRUCTURES AND FUNCTIONS OF MYTH IN ACTUALITY

Summary/Abstract: The concept of myth has permanently known different interpretations, which has led to a diachronic analysis of it, in order to observe the evolution and the stages it has gone through over time. As a repository of an archaic mentality, the myth reaches as far as contemporary society, but is altered by the specifics of the postmodern era, where new myths and archetypes appear, which seem to radically change the paradigm of the myth. The old archetypal structures that we encounter since the first forms of social organization (clans, tribes, etc.) and which were later transmitted in the traditional societies of past centuries are gradually disappearing, being replaced by values of the contemporary world. However, the myth in its original form has not finally disappeared, still being noticed sporadically, especially in rural society, through rites of passage (birth, wedding, funeral) or during certain ceremonial moments. The archetypes are preserved in the collective minds of mostly elderly people, while in the young population, new myths with another symbolic value appear, such as the myth of singer Michael Jackson, Coca Cola brands, Starbucks or parades, events or processions, whether religious or secular: pilgrimages to monasteries, processions with the relics of saints, music festivals, etc. The archetypal structures thus depend on the functions of the myths that the collective imagination continues in one form or another, either by giving them sacred valences or by anchoring them in the profane of the present age.

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