Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to Now - Inner Lives Over Time

How did we develop our sense of inner life? This book follows Auerbach's Mimesis, journeying over two millennia through Western literature from Bible and Homer to the present to answer this question. We discover discrete and different trends, yet also three overarching, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal themes that endure through time.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mimesis: Representation of Inner Reality in Western Mind(s)
Chapter 1. Father-Son Reunions: Interpersonal and Inner Lives of Two Ancient
Cultures, and Universal Emotions
Chapter 2. The Son of God: Figura, or Betzelem Adonai, in the Shadow of God
Chapter 3. Ovid's Incarnations: Instability and Its Passionate Inner Causes
Chapter 4. Maimonides (12th Century): Concealed and Revealed Life
Chapter 5. Dante and Virgil: Rising from Despair (1265-1321)
Chapter 6: Shakespeare: The Leap from Lear to Prospero;
from Tragic to Wise; from Despair to Integrity (and Self-Reflection)
Chapter 7. Rousseau's Confessions and the Birth of Autobiography as a Genre (and Its Twin--Inner Development) (1700s)
Chapter 8. Enchanting Tales, Enchanted Children: The Timelessness of Fairy Tales
(Ancient Egypt to the Present)
Chapter 9. Flaubert: Testing the Tensile Strength Between Style and Character (1800s)
Chapter 10. From the "I" to the "We": Saul Bellow's Lifetime Evolution
Chapter 11. Denoument/Inner Life's Life Course
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Nathan Moses Szajnberg is in private practice and was formerly a visiting professor at Columbia University.

Summary

How did we develop our sense of inner life? This book follows Auerbach’s Mimesis, journeying over two millennia through Western literature from Bible and Homer to the present to answer this question. We discover discrete and different trends, yet also three overarching, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal themes that endure through time.

Product details

• Authors: Nathan M. Szajnberg, Szajnberg Nathan M.
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781666922554
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-255-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis