This is at the heart of Bly's "mythopoetic" approach to male malaise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums, Sweat And Tears] Reference

So what happened to Robert "Iron John" Bly's mythopoetic movement?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember the men's movement?] Reference

Though you get there by flight, you firmly land on the substrate of mythopoetic ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference

Part of the problem ... was the mythopoetic movement's complex relationship to feminism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remember the men's movement?] Reference

Our travel techniques are crude by comparison and lacking their whole mythopoetic value system.    From Wordnik.com.  [ncunuabula: Catalogue of Rare Books, Manuscripts & Curiosa, Conspiracy Theory, Frontier Science & Alternative Worlds from Emory Cranston Part II] Reference

Frederic Myers was aware of this, and spoke of the mythopoetic tendency of the subliminal mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Experiencing the Next World Now] Reference

The mythopoetic movement reframes essentialism and makes it compatible with egalitarian principles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responses to Real Manhood] Reference

Update: Soulful Blogger Joe Perez, who like Hugo comes from a mythopoetic perspective, disagrees with me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Responses to Real Manhood] Reference

One needn't accept Bly's mythopoetic argument in every detail to grasp the power of his concept of father-hunger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums, Sweat And Tears] Reference

This celebration engages our mythopoetic imagination with those early swashbucklers who had some admirable traits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference

There are occa - sional traces of such a view in the Iliad, and perhaps in all mythopoetic literature in every land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

It is as if the movement of Book One, in Milton's descent, has been a moment increasingly focused upon the internal works of Blake's mythopoetic machinery.    From Wordnik.com.  ['If the acts have been perform'd let the Bard himself witness': William Blake's Milton and MOO space] Reference

At the same time, given that you are a writer, I realize that it`s going to be difficult for you to approach this topic from any angle but the mythopoetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [A letter on masculinity and myth] Reference

But whilst Neoplatonism was more philosophical, mystical, and theurgic, Gnosticism was more specificically mythopoetic, individually creative, and religious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Theon, Gnosticism, and Mirra Alfassa] Reference

But the vision met with resistance from many men, Mr. Cross notes, including Robert Bly, with his book "Iron John" (1990) and his "mythopoetic male movement.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Man and Sillyman] Reference

Ultra-leftism is an egocentric form of mythopoetic martyrdom whereby practitioners anoint themselves as the beleaguered guardians of the one true political line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chip Berlet: Abstaining from Bad Sects] Reference

Except, of course, that they are also the most powerful, important and consoling mythopoetic way we have of understanding our lives, our circumstances, our random births and our brutal deaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson] Reference

CyberCraft is the art of living that integrates rational and irrational process through mythopoetic structures primarily from Wicca, then neo-Paganism and other related religious belief systems.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enigma of J. S. Mill] Reference

But other individuals have superior needs: theoretical and mythopoetic; and these point to the stationing of some men in Aristotle's hierarchy of being above common men and below the gods, though following his advice.    From Wordnik.com.  [ART AND PLAY] Reference

That's the whole nature of the problem, really: both sides of the argument are lliteralists who are convinced they are right, and neither side has a nuanced, poetic, mythological, or mythopoetic reading of the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Novak learns it's hard ...] Reference

In the somewhat mythopoetic literature of the World Wrestling Federation, Stone Cold Steve Austin, whose real name is Steven Williams, is listed at 6 feet 2, 252 pounds, but he's probably carrying an extra eight or 10 around the middle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stone Cold Crazy!] Reference

The mythopoetic faculty was extinct, or in its last phase of decadent vitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference

Our mythopoetic instinct is as active as of yore, only the mode of its expression is changed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without Prejudice] Reference

There are also magazine articles profiling Bly's creation of what is called the "mythopoetic men's movement.".    From Wordnik.com.  [News & Features from Minnesota Public Radio] Reference

From their pens has arisen the mythopoetic chant of the land, the land, and the land, as though loam and offal possessed moral qualities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claremont.org] Reference

Movements within the mobility of people included men, masculism the health of people, men mythopoetic movement, pro-feminism, anti-sexism and men, parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

However, the mythopoetic phenomenon epitomized by Robert Bly and Promise Keepers†™ rallies launched by Bill McCartney waned almost as quickly as they arose.    From Wordnik.com.  [MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory] Reference

This study focuses on the value of the mythopoetic branch of the contemporary men's movement as a rejection of patriarchal values, patriarchal masculinity, rather than just being another form of "repackaged" patriarchy.    From Wordnik.com.  ["BANPC" via James Bow in Google Reader] Reference

(Seamus Heany said that their union was mythopoetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vitro Nasu » 2005 » April] Reference

Angels in America, not just in terms of its length and preoccupations but also because of the mythopoetic territory it opens up, "writes Tony Adler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

It was the mythopoetic way.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference

"The mythopoetic faculty!".    From Wordnik.com.  [South Wind] Reference

I think I’m pretty mythopoetic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nice to See « Unknowing] Reference