Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth: Freud and the Freudians

by Dan Merkur, Robert A. Segal (Editor)

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

172 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 2002

Reviews

[Ahmed Hamad · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was quite an interesting book. It goes over the different approaches that the psychoanalytic community have used to approach myths, legends, and fairytales. It's a useful book that I will possibly use a lot in the future in terms of the methods mentioned and the references noted. My only problem with it was that it presumed that the reader knows a LOT about the different psychoanalytic ideas presented here (and they definitely were not all well-known ideas) which left me lost at times.