Anteros : a forgotten myth / Craig E. Stephenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stephenson, Craig E., 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth--Psychology.

Myth.

Sex (Psychology).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xv, 157 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work of Freud, Lacan, and Jung, among others. It examines the successive cultural experiences that formed and inform the myth and also how the myth sheds light on individual human experience and the psychoanalytic process. Topics of discussion include: -- Anteros in the Italian Renaissance, the French Enlightenment and English Modernism Psychologizing Anteros: Freud, Lacan, Girard, and Jung Three anterotic moments in a consulting room. This book presents an important argument at the boundaries of the disciplines of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis, art history, and mythology. It will therefore be essential reading for all analytical psychologists and psychoanalysts as well as art historians and those with an interest in the meeting of psychoanalytic thought and mythology.

Contents:

Resident alien : Anteros in classical Greek and Roman settings

La recuperation : Anteros in the Italian Renaissance

Anteros as contr'amour in the french enlightenment

Chthonic Anteros in the French romantic cosmology

Anteros at the threshold of English modernism

Contemporary artists of the anterotic

Psychologizing Anteros : Freud, Lacan, Girard

Psychologizing Anteros : Jung

Three anterotic moments in a consulting room

An open end : Anteros as a more visible mystery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415572309

0415572304

9780415572316

0415572312

OCLC:

706022738