Classical myth and psychoanalysis : ancient and modern stories of the self / edited by Vanda Zajko and Ellen O'Gorman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zajko, Vanda.

O'Gorman, Ellen.

Series:

Classical Presences

Classical presences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis--Greek influences.

Mythology, Classical.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Self-analysis (Psychoanalysis).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume examines the inter-relationship of classical myth and psychoanalysis from the generation before Freud to the present day, engaging with debates about the role of classical myth in modernity, the importance of psychoanalytic ideas for cultural critique, and its ongoing relevance to ways of conceiving the self.

Contents:

1. Introduction. Myths and their Receptions: Narrative, Antiquity, and the Unconscious

I. Contexts for Freud

2. Freud's Empedocles: The Future of a Dualism

3. Freud's Phallic Symbol

4. Myth, Religion, Illusion: How Freud Got His Fire Back

5. Narcissism against Narcissus? A Classical Myth and its Influence on the Elaboration of Early Psychoanalysis from Binet to Jung

6. 'Who cares whether Pandora had a large pithos or a small pyxis?'

Jane Harrison and the Emergence of a Dynamic Conception of the Unconscious

II. Freud and Vergil

7. Freud's Vergil

8. Juno and the Symptom

9. Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6

III. Beyond the Canon

10. The Mythic Foundation of Law

11. Obeying Your Father: Stoic Theology between Myth and Masochism

12. Valerius Maximus and the Hysteria of Virtue

13. Mythology and the Abject in Imperial Satire

IV. Myth as Narrative and Icon

14. Playing with Fire: Prometheus and the Mythological Consciousness

15. The Ethics of Metamorphosis or A Poet Between Two Deaths

16. 'In the beginning was the Deed': On Oedipus and Cain

17. Aristophanes' Myth of Eros and Contemporary Psychologies of the Self

V. Reflexivity and Meta-Narrative

18. Aristotle on Poets as Parents and the Hellenistic Poet as Mother

19. Listening, Counter-Transference, and the Classicist as 'Subject-Supposed-to-Know'.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Apr. 30, 2013).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-163066-7

OCLC:

847731649