Kierkegaard said that the only way we can be released from the enchantment, the siren song of the myths, is to play the music through backwards. To break the spell of the ego I must recover my personal and political history, I must demythologize the private, family, and public myths that have informed me.
Where the myth fails, human love begins. Then we love a human being, not our dream, but a human being with flaws.
But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problem and solutions shown are directly valid for all mankind.
Cartoons drove the photo back to myth and dream screen.
The most we can do is dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress.
Nights through dreams tell the myths forgotten by the day.
Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves.
What if there be a fated day
When the Faery Isle shall pass away,
And its beautiful groves and fountains seem
The myths of a long, delicious dream!
She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.