Mythorealism

Sergey Teleguin — mitorealismo (мифореализм)

• Who: Russian philologist and scholar Sergey (Sergey M.) Teleguin (Телегин), author and presenter of work on myth, alchemy, and cultural theory.
• Core term: mitorealismo / мифореализм (often translated “mythorealism”) — a concept Teleguin introduced (circa 1994) exploring the interaction of myth and reality: myths both represent reality and actively shape it.
• Method: “mythorestoration” (мифореставрация) — reconstructing, revitalizing, and interpreting underlying mythical structures in texts, art, and culture to recover their formative role and meaning.
• Key ideas: myth as ontological reality; transcedence → immanence; myth organizes lived reality and worldview; analysis combines philology, aesthetics, and symbolic/alchemical readings.
• Typical applications: literary criticism, cultural studies, art and iconography analysis, hermetic/alchemical interpretation.
• Notable outputs: essays, presentations and books on myth, alchemy and mythorealism; multilingual postings and slide presentations circulating online since the 2010s.