Mythological aspects of contemporary configurations of boyish identity

Myth is a form of experience of understanding representing the world as a unity. And the unity becomes as a comprehend existence. Mythologemes (symbols) and mythologies are presented here as cultural imperatives and life scenarios. The myth refers to construction of personal and collective identity. These cultural imperatives and life scenarios are modeling our past, present and, the foremost, our future by moderating its critical uncertainty. The identity is a self-relation, the unity of understanding of an inner man. A man as part of it feels and acts as a unity in the inconstant world. We have a crisis of personal and collective identity today. This identity is performative. Life forms are determined by mythological basis, tradition or something from folklore and post-folklore. (In one hand the folklore tradition refers to things being under taboos. In other hand it could be unreflect in unconscious collective.) These life forms needs to be named because of great importance in social matter. A mythological matrix creates a combination of behavior stereotypes and variety of social roles. The boyhood is a subject that refers to demographic aspects of boy image forming (as baby, child, teenager and youth). All the images comprehends a mythological aspect. Firstly, the subject of boyhood is connected with mythology of childhood and myth as a 'childhood of conscious '. Secondly, its connected with the mythology of gender and thus with growing masculinity and rites of crossing social borders. And thirdly the subject of boyhood is connected with myths of mass conscious, mass culture and patterns of unconscious collective.

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