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:

1 online resource (xvi, 216 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, 1987.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. The Psychoanalytic Study of Folklore

2. Heads or Tails: A Psychoanalytic Study of Potlatch

3. The Strategy of Turkish Boys' Verbal Dueling Rhymes (with Jerry W. Leach and Bora Ozkok)

4. The Piropo and the Dual Image of Women in the Spanish-Speaking World (with Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco)

5. Couvade in Genesis

6. The Symbolic Equivalence of Allomotifs in the Rabbit-Herd (AT 570)

7. The American Game of "Smear the Queer" and the Homosexual Component of Male Competitive Sport and Warfare

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 197-210.

ISBN:

9786612788154

9781282788152

1282788159

9780299112639

0299112632

OCLC:

669500991