罗洛·梅神话理论初探

On Rollo May's Myth Theory

罗洛·梅是20世纪西方著名的存在心理学家和人本主义心理学家。在其晚年,神话成为他思考的重要主题,其著作《祈望神话》一书对神话的意义、功能等神话研究的传统命题提出了新颖的见解,给神话学者提供了研究的新思路,但当下国内关注极少。虽然《祈望神话》因过度强调存在、意向性等非理性因素而为学界所诟病,但罗洛·梅的研究路径对解决当代人精神问题、心理学和神话学的建设以及人类的生存有极大启示,值得进一步学习探讨。

Rollo May is a famous Western humanistic psychologist and existential psychologist in twentieth Century.In his late years,myth became an important theme of his thinking,his work The Cry for Myth puts forward some new ideas on the traditional proposition of the study of the meaning and function of mythology,and provides a new way of thinking for the scholars of Mythology,but few domestic concerns.Although The Cry for Myth was criticized by the academic circles due to excessive emphasis on nonrational factors such as the existence and intentionality,but Rollo May's research path have great enlightenment to the solution of contemporary people's spiritual problems,the construction of psychology and mythology and human survival,so it is worth further study.