ABSTRACT
Mythical narratives condense humanity’s ancestral aspects and fantasies and reflect complex emotional configurations. The practising psychoanalyst, who is able to access them, feels impelled to use these narratives and turn them into models that might allow for the transmission of the ineffable facets of emotional experience. The competence of the analyst should eliminate the risks of reductionism and concreteness inherent to any model, but these features must remain under constant consideration.
