Mythologem

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A mythologem is a single element or motif within mythology . According to the theater scholar Katharina Keim or further traced back to Claude Lévi-Strauss (named by this myth ), a mythologist is the name for the smallest, semantically and historically invariable, constitutive unit of the myth . This would be e.g. B. in the Medea myth, child murder.

Mythologemes are constant "parts of the world" in the unconscious that are structurally included in the psyche. They represent those constants that express themselves relatively identically regardless of culture and time of origin.

literature

• Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structure of Myths. In: Structural Anthropology I. From the French by Hans Naumann, Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1967, pp. 226–254.
• CG Jung: Volume 16; Practice of psychotherapy. In: Medicine and Psychology. 1995 Patmos Verlag, 2nd edition 2006; P. 101