Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth write by Daniel Merkur. This book was released on 2005. Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis write by Vanda Zajko. This book was released on 2013-06-27. Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his developing ideas about the psycho-sexual development of children, it has been virtually impossible to think about psychoanalysis without reference to classical myth. Myth has the capacity to transcend the context of any particular retelling, continuing to transform our understanding of the present. Throughout the twentieth century, experts on the ancient world have turned to the insights of psychoanalytic criticism to supplement and inform their readings of classical myth and literature. This volume examines the inter-relationship of classical myth and psychoanalysis from the generation before Freud to the present day, engaging with debates about the role of classical myth in modernity, the importance of psychoanalytic ideas for cultural critique, and its ongoing relevance to ways of conceiving the self. The chapters trace the historical roots of terms in everyday usage, such as narcissism and the phallic symbol, in the reception of Classical Greece, and cover a variety of both classical and psychoanalytic texts.
Approaches to Greek Myth
Approaches to Greek Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Approaches to Greek Myth write by Lowell Edmunds. This book was released on 2014-09-11. Approaches to Greek Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths.” —Phoenix Since the first edition of Approaches to Greek Myth was published in 1990, interest in Greek mythology has surged. There was no simple agreement on the subject of “myth” in classical antiquity, and there remains none today. Is myth a narrative or a performance? Can myth be separated from its context? What did myths mean to ancient Greeks and what do they mean today? Here, Lowell Edmunds brings together practitioners of eight of the most important contemporary approaches to the subject. Whether exploring myth from a historical, comparative, or theoretical perspective, each contributor lucidly describes a particular approach, applies it to one or more myths, and reflects on what the approach yields that others do not. Edmunds’s new general and chapter-level introductions recontextualize these essays and also touch on recent developments in scholarship in the interpretation of Greek myth. Contributors are Jordi Pàmias, on the reception of Greek myth through history; H. S. Versnel, on the intersections of myth and ritual; Carolina López-Ruiz, on the near Eastern contexts; Joseph Falaky Nagy, on Indo-European structure in Greek myth; William Hansen, on myth and folklore; Claude Calame, on the application of semiotic theory of narrative; Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood, on reading visual sources such as vase paintings; and Robert A. Segal, on psychoanalytic interpretations. “A valuable collection of eight essays . . . Edmunds’s book provides a convenient opportunity to grapple with the current methodologies used in the analysis of literature and myth.” —New England Classical Newsletter and Journal
The Origin of the Gods
The Origin of the Gods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Origin of the Gods write by Richard S. Caldwell. This book was released on 1993-03-11. The Origin of the Gods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative study posits that myths in general, and Greek theogonic myth in particular, have a latent meaning that is responsible both for the emotional energy inherent in myths, and for the special attraction they have even to those who no longer believe in their literal meaning. Caldwell describes, in clear and comprehensible language, aspects of psychoanalytic theory relevant to the understanding of Greek myth, implementing a psychoanalytic methodology to interpret the Greek myth of origin and succession, particularly as stated in Hesiod's Theogony. In reassessing this work, which tells the story of the world's beginning from unbounded Chaos to the defeat of the Titans, Caldwell addresses several unexplained problems-- why does the world begin with the spontaneous emergence of four uncaused entities, and why in this particular order? Why does Ouranos prevent his children from being born by confining them in their mother's body? Why is Ouranos castrated by his son, and why is Aphrodite born from the severed genitals? Why is it always the youngest son who overthrows his father, the sky-god, and what is the logic of the steps taken by Zeus to prevent the same thing happening to him? Presenting a new definition and analyses of the psychological functions in myth, this new study should appeal to a wide range of classicists, teachers and students of mythology, and those interested in the application of psychoanalytic methods to literature.
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory
Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory write by Professor Veronica L Schanoes. This book was released on 2014-05-28. Fairy Tales, Myth, and Psychoanalytic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Testing the relationship between feminist psychoanalytic theory and feminist retellings of fairy tales and myths in the 1970s and 1990s, Schanoes shows that these contemporaneous developments in theory and art advance complementary interpretations of the same themes. Her book posits a new model that emphasizes the interdependence of theory and art and challenges the notion that literary revision involves a masculinist struggle with the writer's artistic forbearers.
