Daniel Merkur

Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 scientific models. As such, there is no validity in condescending to myth-telling cultures, as though their use of myth made them less rational or realistic than Western culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135575274
• Artikelnr.: 38255895

Autorenporträt

Dan Merkur

Inhaltsangabe

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 Epilogue