ABSTRACT
Chapter 3, Re-Framing African Mythology, continues an exploration of African mythology looking at it in a comparative way to those white anthropologists who had created early theories of African mythology and their interpretation for Africans of their myths. Anthropologist Levy-Bruhl and his relationship to C. G. Jung is discussed in terms of a theoretical approach that was a major influence on Jung's Analytical Psychology. This informed his construct of Africanist people functioning within his psychological model. In the re-framing of African mythology, considering it from an Africanist perspective, a discussion is offered through the work of Henry Gates and his interpretation of Esu, Yoruba Trickster god and that of authors presented in Esu: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers. In addition, the sociological writing of Malinowski is highlighted within the chapter.
