Falling out of myth: why we need the mythical misfits
On cultural mythology
Image by Alla Tsank
It was Jungian analyst D. Stephenson Bond, in his 1993 book Living Myth, who first used the phrase 'falling out of myth' to describe what happens to us when we cannot live by the dominant myth of our culture – in other words, when the ways of life that previous generations pursued, when the values they espoused and beliefs they held, …