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Psychoanalytic approaches to myth : Freud and the Freudians / Dan Merkur.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Theorists of myth (Routledge (Firm))Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 161 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 0203997247
  • 9780203997246
  • 0824059360
  • 9780824059361
  • 1280106891
  • 9781280106897
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Psychoanalytic approaches to myth.DDC classification:
  • 150.19/52 22
LOC classification:
  • BF175.5.M95 M47 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • B932
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Contents:
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 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 Clinical Implications; References; Index.
Summary: The book surveys and evaluates the methods that Freud and the various psychoanalytic schools have employed in their studies of myths. In addition to providing a historical survey, the author argues that modern views of myth as something to be deplored because it is inconsistent with history and science depends on a misunderstanding of the nature of myth. Myth is not a product of unconscious irrationality but is instead a sustained use of metaphor. It expresses ideas in concrete imagery of unconscious inspiration, but the ideas can be rational and profound, as is also the case with poetry and s.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)134824

Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index.

BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; 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 Clinical Implications; References; Index.

The book surveys and evaluates the methods that Freud and the various psychoanalytic schools have employed in their studies of myths. In addition to providing a historical survey, the author argues that modern views of myth as something to be deplored because it is inconsistent with history and science depends on a misunderstanding of the nature of myth. Myth is not a product of unconscious irrationality but is instead a sustained use of metaphor. It expresses ideas in concrete imagery of unconscious inspiration, but the ideas can be rational and profound, as is also the case with poetry and s.

Print version record.

English.