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From game to war and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore / Alan Dundes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dundes, Alan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folklore--Psychological aspects.
- Folklore.
- Folklore--United States.
- Psychoanalysis and folklore--United States.
- Psychoanalysis and folklore.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folklorist genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche. Alan Dundes is a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to applying psychoanalytic theory to the materials of folklore. From Game to War offers five of his most mature essays on this topic.Dundes begins with a com
- Contents:
- The psychological study of folklore in the United States
- Traditional male combat : from game to war
- The apple-shot : interpreting the legend of William Tell
- The flood as male myth of creation
- Why is the Jew "dirty"? : a psychological study of anti-Semitic folklore.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8131-6018-9
- 0-8131-6158-4
- OCLC:
- 605322779
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