Mythic figures are compulsive repetitions where curse, crime, and guilt form a closed cycle.

Evidence

At the nodal points of the universe of public discourse, self-validating, analytical propositions appear which function like magic-ritual formulas. Hammered and re-hammered into the recipient’s mind, they produce the effect of enclosing it within the circle of the conditions prescribed by the formula. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 384 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Repeated ideological formulas work like magic rituals to enclose the mind. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 384; Epic narrative organizes myth but dissolves it through rational order.; Myth and epic enact being as closed filiation, excluding the other.

Broader Connections

• Repeated ideological formulas work like magic rituals to enclose the mind. #expands (0.78) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 384
• Epic narrative organizes myth but dissolves it through rational order. #complicates (0.75)