| Description |
1 online resource (x, 161 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Theorists of myth
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Theorists of myth (Routledge (Firm))
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Myth -- Psychological aspects.
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Myth -- Psychological aspects. |
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Myth. |
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Mythology.
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Mythology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Merkur, Daniel. Psychoanalytic approaches to myth. New York : Routledge, 2005 0824059360 (OCoLC)57376129 |
| ISBN |
0203997247 |
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9780203997246 |
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0824059360 |
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9780824059361 |
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