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Book: Archetypes in Religion and Beyond

Chapter: h. Archetypes, Tradition, and Modernity

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.43661

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The differences between traditional and modern societies seem to broadly depend, not on using or not using archetypes, but on the aspects of their function that we fulfil. Traditional societies maintain the diachronic function of archetypes but not the schematic, whereas modern societies maintain the schematic but not the diachronic.

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