Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth

"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;