Methodological a priori of theoretical mythology: between the Scylla of demythologizm and the Charybdis of remythologizm

The paper addressesto the problem of finding adequate methodological principles of philosophical analysis of the myth as an ambivalent cultural phenomenonand a structural element of self-consciousness, the basis of identity formation. Distinction strategy analysis contours of the mythologicalconsciousness as a special structure of experience are defined. The searching problem of adequate methodological principles ofthe mythological consciousness analysis is impeded by the ambivalent nature of myth, by its presence in the structure of understandingand interpreting of being. Myth is not only a cultural form and a legacy of archaic consciousness. Mythic in a broad sense, is the immanentstructure of the consciousness experience, the basis of identity formation. Dialectics of Enlightenment and Romanticism as a specialform of philosophical ethos, the incarnation of the logos and of the myth shows that reflexivity and meaningful self-determination ofany ontology are mutually conditioned. Remythologizm and demythologizm extremes can be overcome by addressing to the distinctionanalysis modification of phenomenology. The experience of consciousness is interpreted here as the integrity of differentiation (distinction),synthesis and identification. The experience of consciousness as an understanding (interpretation) and self-understanding (self) isconceptualised through a historical, temporal structure of reactivation of some basic identities, archetypes, sacred images, and reflexivealienation from the source of the tradition that can be considered as demythologizm and remythologizm dialectics. The problematicalcharacter of the unique development of the story "From Myth to Logos" is shown through demonstration of mutual complementarity ofthese roles of reason as means of thought verbalization, as ways of organizing consciousness experience.

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