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in a myth-poor environment, and we crave myth. The romantic turn of the 19th century brought the idea of myth to the fore. In addition to the renewal of religion (Christianity), the need for a new mythology is extremely strong. The most important observations on this topic come from Schelling. Mythology is not simply a story, but rather an atavistic symbol, or as Schelling calls it well before Freud and Jung: a “archetypal world” (urbildliche Welt). (S.W. IL.5.p. 416.) He describes very well in the Kritisches Journal der Philosophie that mythology can only become mythology if it is universal, if it contains every element that was previously contained in culture (science, religion, and the arts), and if it perfectly combines not only contemporary material but also that from the past. (Hegel, Schelling 1967.p.35.) Going beyond the unique character of any given myth, he emphasizes the universal truth of mythology. He argues that there is something in common in all mythologies, a universal unity that must be brought out and demonstrated beyond the diversity of each mythology itself. This is done by responding to a universal need. European culture is rather poor in mythology after the Classical Age and the rise of the domain of the mind in general. However, the need for anew mythology has been elementary since the 19th century. Psychoanalysis discovered the power of mythology, its archetypal (Jung) significance, the concept of the collective unconscious. (see Jung 1935. p.179-229.) All of this was done by leading back to the mythologies already commonly known. People had to wait for a new mythology. To be sure, the success of fantasy (especially in the world of cinema) just shows an infinite lack of imagination, and it really seems as if the whole world is escaping into some kind of impossible fairytale world. The surroundings of modern people are shallow and pathetically bleak. Their lack of imagination makes it so. However, fantasy itself is just as shallow. It replaces individual imagination, which humanity lost a very long time ago when they resigned themselves to living in the emotional desert of the contemporary world. One thing, however, is indisputable: these fantasies convey something essential. They
