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Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
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Pages: 385
Authors: Vanda Zajko
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-27 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Since Freud published the Interpretation of Dreams in 1900 and utilized Sophocles' Oedipus Rex to work through his developing ideas about the psycho-sexual deve
Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Daniel Merkur
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-07-05 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric
Freudian Mythologies
Language: en
Pages: 262
Authors: Rachel Bowlby
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-02-22 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, w
The Origin of the Gods
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Richard S. Caldwell
Categories: Gods, Greek
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Presented in clear, comprehensible language, this study first explains the aspects of psychoanalytic theory relevant to the understanding of Greek myth, and the
Beckett and the Mythology of Psychoanalysis
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Phil Baker
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-10-29 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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This is the first full length study to consider Beckett's informed but deeply ambivalent engagement with the terrain of psychoanalysis. Taking psychoanalysis as