Classical myth and psychoanalysis : ancient and modern stories of the self /

This book examines the inter-relationship of classical myth and psychoanalysis from the generation before Freud to the present day, engaging with debates about the reception of classical myth by modernity, the importance of psychoanalytic ideas for cultural critique, and its on-going relevance to wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Zajko, Vanda (Editor), O'Gorman, Ellen (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Classical presences.
Subjects:	Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939. Freud, Sigmund, > 1856-1939 Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis > Greek influences. Mythology, Classical. Mythology, Classical, in literature. Self-analysis (Psychoanalysis) Psychoanalysis > history Psychanalyse. Mythologie ancienne. Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature. Autoanalyse. psychoanalysis. PSYCHOLOGY > General. Mythology, Classical Mythology, Classical, in literature Psychoanalysis Psychoanalysis > Greek influences Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction : Myths and their receptions : narrative, antiquity, and the unconscious / Vanda Zajko, Ellen O'Gorman
Freud's Empedocles : the future of a dualism / Bruce M. King
Freud's phallic symbol / Daniel Orrells
Myth, religion, illusion : how Freud got his fire back / Richard H. Armstrong
Narcissism against narcissus? A classical myth and its influence on the elaboration of early psychoanalysis from Binet to Jung / David Engels
Who cares whether Pandora had a large pithos or a small pyxis? : Jane Harrison and the emergence of a dynamic conception of the unconscious / Vered Lev Kenaan
Freud's Vergil / Gregory A. Staley
Juno and the symptom / Jeff Rodman
Tu marcellus eris : Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6 / Ika Willis
The mythic foundation of law / Victoria Wohl
Obeying your father : stoic theology between myth and masochism / Kurt Lampe
Valerius Maximus and the hysteria of virtue / Erik Gunderson
Mythology and the abject in imperial satire / Paul Allen Miller
Playing with fire : Prometheus and the mythological consciousness / Meg Harris Williams
The ethics of metamorphosis or a poet between two deaths / Oliver Harris
'In the beginning was the deed': on Oedipus and Cain / Jens De Vleminck
Aristophanes' myth of Eros and contemporary psychologies of the self / Marcia Dobson, John Riker
Aristotle on poets as parents and the Hellenistic poet as mother / Mark Payne
Listening, counter-transference, and the classicist as 'subject-supposed-to-know' / Page duBois.