“The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.”
Karl Abraham
Dreams And Myths: A Study In Race Psychology
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“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”
Joseph Campbell
“Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind”
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Margaret Atwood
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