Du discours à l’archétype dans l’œuvre de Mircea Eliade
From Discourse to Archetype in Mircea Eliade’s Works

Summary/Abstract: The exegesis of Mircea Eliade’s work highlights the fact that the author integrated concepts that belong to several sciences into his hermeneutical analysis of religion. Thus, our study analyses both Eliade’s view of discourse and the tight connection with the idea of myth, which is a fundamental religious concept for his work. We are focusing on the concept of myth as fundamental, archaic story, which establishes the connection between human and transcendental by resorting to symbol as a key concept for semiotics. Eliade takes the theories of symbol further into Jungian psychoanalysis, while highlighting its connections with the imaginary and the human subconsciousness, thus getting to a fundamental anthropological concept, that of the archetype. The circle discourse–myth–symbol– archetype that we aim to analyze is thus closed, as it shows the continuity of “divine manifestation”.

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