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08/17/2009

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Sir James George Frazer
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(1854-1941) Revolutionized the way scholars thought about myths and folklore. Wrote the "Golden Bough"
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Sigmund Freud
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(1856-1939) The same dreams and mythological images are present in different cultures. OEDIPUS COMPLEX
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Carl Jung
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(1875-1961) Archetypes are present in every culture's mtyhology
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Vladimir Propp
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(1895-1970) All stories can be broken down into 31 different functions
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Levi Strauss
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(1908-) The driving force behind all myths is the mediation between opposites
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Joseph Campbell
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(1904-1987) All myths are versions of Monomyth, which ultimately contains the one universal truth
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Walter Burket
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(1931-) Myths have roots in the biological changes that people undergo
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Otto Rank
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(1884-1939) Held that many myths dealt with both the birth canal trauma and children's coming to terms with imperfect parents
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Theodore Gaster
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(1906-1992) Viewed myths as originating from "a sequence of ritual acts,..."
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Bronislaw Malinowski
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(1884-1942) Founder of functionalism which holds that every aspect of society is vital to understanding a society
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