Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious [1st ed.] 9781782200024, 1782200029, 9780429902222, 0429902220, 9780429916458, 0429916450

At a time when the place and significance of myth in society has come under renewed scrutiny,Myth, Literature, and the U

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Table of contents :
Part I Myth in the Modern World --
chapter One Apocalypse, transformation, and scapegoating: moving myth into the twenty-first century / Steven F. Walker --
chapter Two The divine image: remaking Blake's myths / Jason Whittaker --
part II Oedipus Reconsidered --
chapter Three The Yayāti complex: a contra-oedipal take on myth and the unconscious / Saugata Bhaduri --
chapter Four The slaughter of Isaac: oedipal themes in the Akedah narrative revisited / Paul Cantz --
chapter Five From Oedipus to Ahab (and back): myth and psychoanalysis in science fiction / Angie Voela --
part III Theorising Myth and the Unconscious --
chapter Six Freudian and Jungian approaches to myth: the similarities / Robert A. Segal --
chapter Seven The boy who had dreams in his mouth / Eric Rhode --
chapter Eight Myth, synchronicity, and re-enchantment* / Roderick Main --
part IV Readings in Myth and the Imaginary --
chapter Nine The confrontation with the anima in Akinari Ueda's story?Jasei no in? (?A serpent's lust?, 1776) / Janet A. Walker --
chapter Ten Sorrow and surprise: a reading of Théophile Gautier's sphinx complex / Leon Burnett --
part V Orpheus and Literature --
chapter Eleven From the archaic into the aesthetic: myth and literature in the?Orphic? Goethe / Paul Bishop --
chapter Twelve Orpheus, Eurydice, Blanchot: some thoughts on the nature of myth and literature* / Lyndon Davies.

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