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Myth and Religion in Mircea Eliade. Douglas Allen. Levittown, PA: Taylor and Francis, Inc., 1998. 375 pp.

Mircea Eliade es uno de los principales hermeneutas de la historia de lasreligiones y el mito. Aquí se explica qué es, para él, la hermenéutica y seexponen algunos de los principios básicos de una obra dedicada al estudiodel homo symbolicus o religiosus.

"Mircea Eliade and Psycho-Historical Methodology. Starting from Thomas Kuhn's seminal work on scientific paradigms, the venerable concept of Weltanschauung (world-vision) can be upgraded in order to reach a psycho-historical understanding of cultural evolutions. In this paper I intend to adapt to contemporary cultural hermeneutics a schema proposed by Nietzsche and developed by Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis. In this model, the relations between the individual consciousness and the unconscious offer the blueprint for describing the dynamics of the collective psyche. The model states that, when a culture (religion, etc.) has been overruled by a new dominant culture (religion), it remains active by way of survivals and reminiscences (Aby Warburg, Walter Benjamin) and eventually, after a period of persecution and censorship, it will re-emerge in a new form, transformed by the general principles of the dominant culture but nevertheless contesting and challenging it. I will attempt to show that such a psychohistorical dialectic has occurred six successive times in the history of European civilization.

Keywords: psycho-history, Mircea Eliade, remerging cultures, European civilization, history of religions
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