title: Myth therapy. Notes on collective traumatology
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metadata.value: Brodsky, Alexander I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-08-25T19:18:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-08-25T19:18:46Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.value: Brodsky A. I. Myth therapy. Notes on collective traumatology. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2021, vol. 37, issue 2, pp. 208–216.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2021.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/32976
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article analyzes the mechanisms for the formation of social myths, as well as their functions
  pertaining to collective trauma, and puts forward three theses. Firstly, the characteristics
  which turn text into myth depend not on its formal or essential features, but rather on its
  perception (how the audience interprets the meaning of its constituent statements). Anything
  can become a myth. Usually, a myth consists of depictions, statements, and explanations, that
  is, descriptive utterances. However, to understand a myth is to know the preconditions not
  for the truth and/or falsity of its constituent statements, but instead the implementation of
  certain rules of conduct. A myth is a description interpreted as a prescription. This approach
  makes it possible to understand how various scientific or philosophical theories, initially aiming
  to describe and explain the world, turn into myths determining the social behaviour of the
  masses. Secondly, a myth turns descriptions into prescriptions through “storytelling”. A myth
  is a narrative which inevitably uses certain tropes essential for all narratives. The form of the
  narrative makes it possible to establish a pseudo-logical connection between various “elementary
  statements” capturing real or fictional events. Without such a connection, there is no
  value and, therefore, no normative perception of these events. Thirdly, the transformation of
  a description or explanation of a traumatic event into imperatives is the most important form
  of the therapy of collective consciousness. A description of a traumatic event turning into a
  call for action and construction of a new reality presents perhaps the only way to get rid of the
  destructive consequences of psychological trauma, both at the collective and individual level.
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metadata.value: The research has been performed within the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  no. 20-011-00124 “Transformation of the ethical culture under the influence of neurosciences”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 37; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: myth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: imperative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: norms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: values
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: narrative
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: tropes
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: trauma
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: psychotherapy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Myth therapy. Notes on collective traumatology
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metadata.value: Article
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