There is a long history of mythography. The difference is that I ground my mythography not solely in self-reflection and prior scholarship, but in interpretation of recent neuroscience. My attitude is worship, grasping to appreciate the self as an expression of the the Creator.
The Chinese deify ancestors. Ancients created gods as a kind of psychology.
Pantheons in Social Science
ism: sociology -ist: political science -ity: economics -tion: psychology -ence: philosophy
Biologists
Biologists name new species after Greek, Roman, and other deities and words
Biologists often name biochemical entities (anandamide) and genes (Noggin, Sonic Hedgehog) with epithets
Astronomers
Astronomers name new celestial objects after mythology
Physicists
Randomness, dimensions
Statistical modeling -> quantum non-realism
Shut up and calculate
Feynman – diagrams made it too simple
Psychology
Neuroscience
Neuroscientists name brain areas after discoverers (diagonal band of Broca, nucleus of Darkschewitz).
fMRI & functional connectivity networks
Philosophy
Leibniz: monads “perpetual living mirrors of the universe”: entelechies, souls (w/memory & perception), spirits (rational souls), God -the monad that perceives all others with perfect clarity
Hegel reified words like Notion, Essence, Other, Being, Nothing, Becoming, Sublation
Sartre
- Being (être): Including both Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself (both as defined below), but the latter is the nihilation of the former. Being is objective, not subjective or individual.
- Being-in-itself (être-en-soi): Non-conscious Being. The sort of phenomenon that is greater than the knowledge that we have of it.
- Being-for-itself (être-pour-soi): The nihilation of Being-in-itself; consciousness conceived as a lack of Being, a desire for Being, a relation of Being. The For-itself brings Nothingness into the world and therefore can stand out from Being and form attitudes towards other beings by seeing what it is not.
- Being-for-others (être-pour-autrui): Here a new dimension arises in which the self exists as an object for others. Each For-itself seeks to recover its own Being by making an object out of the other.
- Consciousness: The transcending For-itself. Sartre states that “Consciousness is a being such that in its being, its being is in question insofar as this being implies a being other than itself.”
- Existence: Concrete, individual being-for-itself here and now.
- Existence precedes essence. The subjective existence of reality precedes and defines its nature. Who you are (your essence) is defined by what you do (your existence).
- Facticity (facticité): Broadly: facts about the world. More precisely, the For-itself’s necessary connection with the In-itself, with the world and its own past.
- Freedom: The very being of the For-itself which is “condemned to be free”. It must forever choose for itself and therefore make itself.
- Nothingness (néant): Although not having being, it is supported by being. It comes into the world by the For-itself.
- Reflection (reflet): The form in which the For-itself founds its own nothingness through the dyad of “the-reflection-reflecting”
- Reflection (réflexion):The consciousness attempting to become its own object.
Derrida: deconstruction: finding demons hiding in between the lines of text. “there is no out-of-context”, giving philosophical license to hordes of successors to maliciously quote people out-of -context in pursuit of political agendas.
Foucault: power: sovereign power, disciplinary power, biopower
Husserl: phenomonology
Intentionality
Intuition
Evidence
Noesis & Noema
Empathy & Intersubjectivity
Lifeworld
Economics
Economists invented the Invisible Hand, animal spirits, MV = PQ, NAIRU. Alfred Marshall’s method: math as story
Anthropology
Strauss: structuralism–mythemes as thesis/antithesis/synthesis
Sociology
August Comte religion of man
Emile Durkheim – social facts
Berger & Luckmann – The Social Construction of Reality
Social Stock of Knowledge, divided into Semantic Fields
Signs & Language construct reality
Society-objective
Intersubjectivity – many realities
Habitualization & institutionalization
Institutions gives roles, symbolic universe -> legitimation
Universe maintenance
Society – subjective
Socialization, conversation, identity
Nomos
Biostatistics
Biological determinism: Evolution, gene fitness, divined by statistics
Galton – correlation; nature vs. nurture binary
Pearson – p-value, correlation coefficient, PCA
Fisher – p-value
Spearman: factor analysis, g – IQ
Psychology
Freud
The unconscious: dynamic, economic, topographic -> unconscious, preconscious, conscious -> id, ego, superego
psychosexuality: oral, anal, phallic
life drive : Eros, death drive : Thanatos
In a footnote of his 1909 work, Analysis of a Phobia in a Five year old Boy, Freud theorized that the universal fear of castration was provoked in the uncircumcised when they perceived circumcision and that this was “the deepest unconscious root of anti-Semitism“.
Jung
Lacan
Lacan reified words like , and presented an algebra that included the phallic function as an analogy for the sqrt(-1)
French & Raven – Five Bases of Power: Coercion, Reward, Legitimacy, Expert, Referent, Informational
These make sense to sociologists, but miss Seductive, Trust, Moral, Shame, and other powers.
Paleontology
Tethys Ocean, Thalassian Ocean