Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics

This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the 'oral' Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical and linguistic issues that are linked to the basic psychoanalytic concepts that emerge from such a listening.

About the author

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis is training and supervising analyst of the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Professor of psychoanalysis and philosophy at McGill University, in Montreal, as well as Emeritus Psychiatrist at the McGill University Health Centre. He has published extensively in the area of clinical psychoanalysis, with a special interest in the psychoanalysis of severely disturbed individuals, but has also turned his attention to psychoanalysis and theater, and, in particular, to the psychoanalytic study of tragedy and of the tragic.

Product details

• Authors: Konstantinos I Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2015
• EAN: 9789042039278
• ISBN: 978-90-420-3927-8
• No. of pages: 122
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 295 g
• Series: Contemporary Psychoanalytic St
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis