Classical myth and psychoanalysis : ancient and modern stories of the self / Vanda Zajko and Ellen O'Gorman
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- Zajko, Vanda and O'Gorman, Ellen
Access Online
- Oxford scholarship online: ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu
- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction. Myths and their Receptions: Narrative, Antiquity, and the Unconscious -- 2.Freud's Empedocles: The Future of a Dualism / Ellen O'Gorman / Vanda Zajko -- 3.Freud's Phallic Symbol / Bruce M. King -- 4.Myth, Religion, Illusion: How Freud Got His Fire Back / Daniel Orrells -- 5.Narcissism against Narcissus? A Classical Myth and its Influence on the Elaboration of Early Psychoanalysis from Binet to Jung / Richard H. Armstrong -- 6.'Who cares whether Pandora had a large pithos or a small pyxis?' Jane Harrison and the Emergence of a Dynamic Conception of the Unconscious / David Engels -- 7.Freud's Vergil / Vered Lev Kenaan -- 8.Juno and the Symptom / Gregory A. Staley -- 9.Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6 / Jeff Rodman -- 10.The Mythic Foundation of Law / Ika Willis -- 11.Obeying Your Father: Stoic Theology between Myth and Masochism / Victoria Wohl -- 12.Valerius Maximus and the Hysteria of Virtue / Kurt Lampe -- 13.Mythology and the Abject in Imperial Satire / Erik Gunderson -- 14.Playing with Fire Prometheus and the Mythological Consciousness / Paul Allen Miller -- 15.The Ethics of Metamorphosis or A Poet Between Two Deaths / Meg Harris Williams -- 16.'In the beginning was the Deed': On Oedipus and Cain / Oliver Harris -- 17.Aristophanes' Myth of Eros and Contemporary Psychologies of the Self / Jens De Vleminck -- 18.Aristotle on Poets as Parents and the Hellenistic Poet as Mother / Marcia Dobson / John Riker -- 19.Listening, Counter-Transference, and the Classicist as 'Subject-Supposed-to-Know' / Mark Payne.
- Summary
- This volume examines the inter-relationship of classical myth and psychoanalysis from the generation before Freud to the present day, engaging with debates about the role of classical myth in modernity, the importance of psychoanalytic ideas for cultural critique, and its ongoing relevance to ways of conceiving the self.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780191756993 (ebook)
- Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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