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On Mythic Mimesis

David Pan's study of German Expressionism focuses on three concepts: primitivism, myth, and mimesis. For Pan, "primitivism" is a preconscious dimension of experience within which the individual manages and mediates (as opposed to reconciles) the essential contradiction of matter and spirit (variously: reality and wish, real and fantastic, primitive and modern, individual and collective); "myth" is the trace of this mediating function, as well as the social form that best allows dealing with contradictions; and "mimesis" is the characteristic mode of mythic performance, an expression of some larger psychic totality, a trace of collective perserveration and the irrepressable resurrection of...