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Parsing through customs : essays by a Freudian folklorist / Alan Dundes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dundes, Alan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 216 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.
- Summary:
- In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes' work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children's games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 197-210.
- ISBN:
- 0299112608 :
- OCLC:
- 16411259
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