Abstract

The recovery of some genuine mythopoietic instances contained in the Red Book, and no longer developed by Jung in his mature Christological works, now seems necessary in view of a Christology that in general, in both of its main epistemic directions, modifies appropriately the myth underestimating attitude that prevailed in the last century, especially during the rule of Bultmann’s New Testament demythologizing program, and finally opens to fruitful calls coming from both the manifold Jung’s Christ-mythology and Pareyson’s proposal of ontology of freedom as a hermeneutics of the Christian myth.