TY  - BOOK
AU  - Merkur,Daniel
TI  - Psychoanalytic approaches to myth: Freud and the Freudians 
T2  - Theorists of myth
SN  - 0203997247
AV  - BF175.5.M95 M47 2005eb
U1  - 150.19/52 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Myth
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Mythology
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Movements
KW  - Psychoanalysis
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - cct
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index; BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; TABLE OF CONTENTS; Chapter 1 Mythology into Metapsychology; Chapter 2 Myth as Unconscious Manifestation; Chapter 3 Myth and the Basic Dream; Chapter 4 Myth as Defense and Adaptation; Chapter 5 Myth as Metaphor; Chapter 6 Therapeutic Insights in Myth; Epilogue Clinical Implications; References; Index
N2  - The book surveys and evaluates the methods that Freud and the various psychoanalytic schools have employed in their studies of myths. In addition to providing a historical survey, the author argues that modern views of myth as something to be deplored because it is inconsistent with history and science depends on a misunderstanding of the nature of myth. Myth is not a product of unconscious irrationality but is instead a sustained use of metaphor. It expresses ideas in concrete imagery of unconscious inspiration, but the ideas can be rational and profound, as is also the case with poetry and s
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