Psychoanalytic approaches to myth : Freud and the Freudians

Author(s)

• Merkur, Daniel

Bibliographic Information

Psychoanalytic approaches to myth : Freud and the Freudians

Dan Merkur

（Theorists of myth / Robert A. Segal, series editor）

Routledge, 2014

• : pbk

Note

Published in 2005 by Routledge

"First issued in paperback 2014"--T.p. verso

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

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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

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 Epilogue

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB16874411
• ISBN:
  • 9780415651127
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York ; London
• Pages/Volumes: x, 162 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 150.195
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Myth -- Psychological aspects
  • LCSH : Psychoanalysis
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA58105664