This article is an attempt to explore and explain the complex processes mechanisms involved in creating myth signs as presented Roland Barthes’ Mythologies (1957) through interdisciplinary interdiscursive approach. The presupposes that mythic system of signification occupies a liminal space multiplicity disciplines discourses. sign integrates myriad epistemological spaces philosophical, scienti...

Santiago Ramón y Cajal, a mythic figure in science and recognized as the father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, was largely responsible for the modern conception of the brain. The first to publish on the nervous system, he sought to educate the novice scientist about how he thought science should be done. We asked an accomplished young investigator to take a fresh look at this recently redi...

"Myth is the mode of simultaneous awareness of a complex group of causes and effects. Electric circuitry confers a mythic dimension on our ordinary individual and group actions. Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single separate planes." (ibid, p. 114) "The fragmenting of activities, our habit of thinking in bits and parts—"specialism"—re...

Advances in technology, while improving the conditions and modes of travel, have not obviated its dangers or reduced the mythical content and potential of travel experience. The present essay attempts a provisional survey of foreign travel as a recurring motif in the history of consciousness and as a mythically redolent theme in literature, film, and other forms of expression. Critical expositi...

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