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正如学者所言:“追随容格(原文为容格)的欧美神话学家们曾经立下宏愿,要像在语言中归纳提炼国际音标一样,在全世界的神话里提炼出原型的ABC,但没有实现。大抵停留在概念上。”①荣格将原型与母题等值,这里所说的原型ABC就是指母题ABC。汤普森在《民间文学母题索引》中恰恰体现了对荣格的追随,只是他把对母题的考察范围由神话扩大到民间文学,并将民间文学母题涵盖为神话、动物、禁忌、魔法、死亡、异事、妖魔、考验、聪明与智慧等23大类,22978个母题。汤普森为其所论的母题定义为:一个母题是一个故事中最小的,能够持续在传统中的成分。要如此它就必须具有某种不寻常的和动人的力量。绝大多数
As the scholar put it: “The European and American mythologists who followed Rong Ge (originally Wen Rong) set the ambition to summarize the prototype ABC in the myths of the world like inducting and refining IPA in the language. But did not achieve, probably stay in the concept. ”① Jung will prototype and motif equivalent, here said prototype ABC refers to the motif ABC. Thompson exactly follows Jung’s follow-up in the Index of Motif of Folk Literature, except that he expands the scope of his study from myth to folk literature and covers the topics of folk literature as myths, animals, taboos, magic , 23 deaths, strange events, demon, test, intelligence and wisdom 23 categories, 22978 motifs. Thompson defines the motif for his argument as follows: A motif is the smallest of a story that can continue in the tradition. To do so, it must have some unusual and moving force. Mostly