Psychoanalytic approaches to myth : Freud and the Freudians / Dan Merkur.

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 scie...

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Main Author: Merkur, Daniel
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:Theorists of myth (Routledge (Firm))
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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