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Noun- A basic or recurrent theme of a story that is usually of unknown origin and at least partially traditional.

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  • However, in difference to the Servant mythologem, Lamb is recognized and honored by the whole cosmos.
  • This is the another figure - appearing, like in Revelation, with the duplication and further differentiation of the mythologem - but here the pair is completely...
  • While the same fundamental mythologem is present in both cases, it seems that in Jung's case it left beside or only marginally present, in Dylan's opus as well as in his...
  • Therefore, the humiliating aspect of the mythologem can be fulfilled only by the man-child, which symbolizing the more conscious and personal part of the Self confronted...
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