When Carl Jung and Carl Kerenyi got together to collaborate on this book, their aim was to elevate the study of mythology to a science. Kerenyi wrote on two of

Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.

This philosophical introduction to and discussion of social and political studies of science argues that scientific knowledge is socially constructed.

At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on th