Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth - Freud and the Freudians

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

List of contents

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;

About the author

Dan Merkur

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Merkur, Merkur Daniel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2014
• EAN: 9780415651127
• ISBN: 978-0-415-65112-7
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Theorists of Myth
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Psychoanalysis; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, Religion: general, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Ancient religions and Mythologies