Description
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 161 pages) |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0203997247
9780203997246
0824059360
9780824059361
1280106891
9781280106897 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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