Myth, literature, and the unconscious / by Sanja Bahun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bahun, Sanja, author.

Contributor:

Burnett, Leon.

Bahun, Sanja.

Main, Roderick.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth in literature.

Subconsciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny, Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious contributes to shaping the new interdisciplinary field of myth studies. The editors find in psychoanalysis a natural and necessary ally for investigations in myth and myth-informed literature and the arts. At the same time the collection re-values myths and myth-based cultural products as vital aids to the discipline and practice of psychoanalysis. The volume spans a vast geo-cultural range (including ancient Egypt, India, Japan, nineteenth-century France, and twentieth-century Germany) and investigates cultural products from the Mahabharata to J. W. Goethe's opus and eighteenth-century Japanese fiction, and from William Blake's visionary poetry to contemporary blockbuster television series. It encompasses mythic topics and figures such as Oedipus, Orpheus, the Scapegoat, and the Hero, while mobilising Freudian, Jungian, object relations, and Lacanian psychoanalytic approaches.

Contents:

pt. I. Myth in the modern world

pt. II. Oedipus reconsidered

pt. III. Theorising myth and the unconscious

pt. IV. Readings in myth and the imaginary

pt. V. Orpheus and literature.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-429-91645-0

0-429-90222-0

0-367-10199-8

0-429-47745-7

1-78241-153-4

9780429477454

OCLC:

859161486