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The topics highlighted in the title of this introduction can be treated as a compass guiding the problems tackled by the authors of this volume. The general topic of the narrative approach to life was described by Wilhelm Schapp as entanglement, the state of always being involved in a story, of both telling it and being told by it. Entanglement can thus be understood as a basic condition of the human being when it comes to the narrative dimension of experience. The articles presented in this issue can be read as so many different standpoints on these fundamental phenomenological insights. One could even claim that they cover the full spectrum of entanglement: starting with myth as the core example of being – unconsciously told by a trans-historical story that has an impact on philosophical thinking; going through a range of examples that show the role of entanglement in creating the sense of self in the context of the spiritual world and aesthetic experience; and concluding with limiting cases – such as dreams, symbols, and the atemporal form of the present tense in storytelling – that, to some extent, all expose the boundaries of entanglement and could encourage contemporary philosophers of a phenomenological and hermeneutic orientation to rethink this category.
How to cite:
Gołaszewski, Filip, and Jan Molina. “Dreams, Myth, and the Phenomenology of Entanglement.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 10, no. 1 (2026): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.14394/eidos.jpc.2026.0001.
Author:
Filip Gołaszewski
Independent Scholar, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6698-0177
philipgolaszewski@gmail.com
Jan Molina
Independent Scholar, Poland
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6534-2749
janmolina@outlook.com
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