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motifs

n. (plural of motif English)

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The characteristic effect of mythic themes and motifs translated into ritual, consequently, is that they link the individual to transindividual purposes and forces.

That is, he accepts the fact that the basic motifs of mythological thought are produced by the infantile and childhood structures of preop and early conop, and he explicitly says so using Piagetian terms.

Calling on inherited archetypes and old mythological motifs is of little help in this new, emergent, and unprecedented endeavor.

There was no way for tribal social organization to move beyond isolationism without finding a source of commonalities beyond kinship, and this the mythic motifs provided.

Our cultural motifs, our educational system, our communications media had failed this man.

Ming figure identified as a Taoist divinity whose clothing, whose posture, whose facial expression, whose accompaniment of symbolic animals had associations that branched back hundreds and thousands of years, every such conjunction sub-scattering then into increasingly cryptic motifs involving taboos, legends, reincarnations, composite gods.

Freud and Jung bitterly parted wayson the nature and function of these mythic motifs, these archetypes.

Essentially the same mythological motifs are to be found throughout the world.

TRUE NIGHT FALLS combines SF and fantasy motifs in a believable manner.