Alan Dundes

Broschiertes Buch

From Game to War and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

Beschreibung

Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciplines recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. In this volume, Alan Dundes, a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to applying psychoanalytic theory to the m

Autor

Alan Dundes, professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, is author of Parsing Through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Kentucky
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 213g
• ISBN-13: 9780813160184
• ISBN-10: 0813160189
• Artikelnr.: 41122985