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Fire in the dragon and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore / Geza Roheim ; edited and introduced by Alan Dundes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Róheim, Géza, 1891-1953, author.
- Series:
- Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; Volume 51
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychoanalysis and folklore.
- Fairy tales--Psychological aspects.
- Fairy tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
- Summary:
- The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, this Hungarian analyst demonstrates the validity of Freudian theory in both Western and non-Western settings. These seventeen essays, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Rcheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of readers to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends. From Australian aboriginal mythology to Native American trickster tales, from the Grimm folktale canon to Hungarian folk belief, Rcheim explores a wide range of issues, such as the relationship of dreams to folklore and the primacy of infantile conditioning in the formation of adult fantasy. An introduction by folklorist Alan Dundes describes Rcheim's career, and each essay is prefaced by a brief consideration of its intellectual and bibliographical context.
- Contents:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Psychoanalysis and the Folktale
- Chapter Two: The Significance of Stepping Over
- Chapter Three: Magic and Theft in European Folklore
- Chapter Four: Myth and Folktale
- Chapter Five: Saint Agatha and the Tuesday Woman
- Chapter Six: The Story of the Light That Disappeared
- Chapter Seven: The Thread of Life
- Chapter Eight: The Bear in the Haunted Mill
- Chapter Nine: Culture Hero and Trickster in North American Mythology
- Chapter Ten: Tom,Tit,Tot
- Chapter Eleven: Fire in the Dragon
- Chapter Twelve: Mythology of Arnhem Land
- Chapter Thirteen: Fairy Tale and Dream
- Chapter Fourteen: The Wolf and the Seven Kids
- Chapter Fifteen: Hansel and Gretel
- Chapter Sixteen: The Language of Birds
- Chapter Seventeen: Dame Holle: Dream and Folktale (Grimm No. 24)
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691234212
- 0691234213
- OCLC:
- 1261367877
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