Dr. Vogel dispels two potent myths.

The most potent myth.

It's a potent myth and a necessary one - but it is a myth.

Joan, it has been noted by many, became a potent myth because her story can be made to reflect the moral preoccupations of every era.

A potent myth, but a friendly one.

Such effects remain in place, despite retractions, creating potent but baseless political myths.

Here is a little shrine to the still potent myth of the artist consumed by his own Dionysian energies.

Are such crude but potent myths of the "moral" superiority of physical superiority still dominant in our culture?

One plays the traditional role, singing words adapted from Sophocles, words chronicling the downfall of the man who has given psychiatry its most potent myth.

More recent biographers have tried to deconstruct these potent myths.