Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth

ISBN-13: 9780415651127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 172 str.

Daniel Merkur

Opis

This volume surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defence mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

Recenzje

"A comparative history of one specific mythographic path from Freud to our day, this work explores the many branches of classical psychoanalytic criticism, excluding those...who strayed from the orthodox path." --William G. Doty, The University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa, Religious Studies Review

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Mythology into Metapsychology; Chapter 2 Myth as Unconscious Manifestation; Chapter 3 Myth and the Basic Dream; Chapter 4 Myth as Defense and Adaptation; Chapter 5 Myth as Metaphor; Chapter 6 Therapeutic Insights in Myth; epilogue Epilogue;

O autorze

Dan Merkur