"A comparative history of one specific mythographic path from Freud to our day, this work explores the many branches of classical psychoanalytic criticism, excluding those...who strayed from the orthodox path." --William G. Doty, The University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa, Religious Studies Review

• 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 Epilogue;