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Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 20)

Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis

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Description:This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the oral Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical and linguistic issues that are linked to the basic psychoanalytic concepts that emerge from such a listening. The main themes treated rotate around the central axis of time as it is expressed in the Homeric epics. Thus, questions of transition, loss, mourning, tolerance, identity, metaphor and tragic fragmentation are addressed as they relate to the ancient text. The process of "metabasis" along contrasting psychic states of being is discussed as it provides the frame for the construction of the basic interval of time and of the flux of human identity. Although psychoanalysis from its early beginnings has shown largely owing to Freud s positing the Oedipus complex as the nuclear conflict a distinct interest in classical Antiquity, the area of the great Homeric Epics has been singularly neglected as a chosen focus of psychoanalytic attention. It is as if the Homeric Epics belonged to a prehistoric "pre-oedipal" world which, for a long time, was not the dominant concern of psychoanalysis. The merit of this book lies in the fact that it fills part of this lacuna in psychoanalytic studies."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 20). To get started finding Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 20), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the oral Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical and linguistic issues that are linked to the basic psychoanalytic concepts that emerge from such a listening. The main themes treated rotate around the central axis of time as it is expressed in the Homeric epics. Thus, questions of transition, loss, mourning, tolerance, identity, metaphor and tragic fragmentation are addressed as they relate to the ancient text. The process of "metabasis" along contrasting psychic states of being is discussed as it provides the frame for the construction of the basic interval of time and of the flux of human identity. Although psychoanalysis from its early beginnings has shown largely owing to Freud s positing the Oedipus complex as the nuclear conflict a distinct interest in classical Antiquity, the area of the great Homeric Epics has been singularly neglected as a chosen focus of psychoanalytic attention. It is as if the Homeric Epics belonged to a prehistoric "pre-oedipal" world which, for a long time, was not the dominant concern of psychoanalysis. The merit of this book lies in the fact that it fills part of this lacuna in psychoanalytic studies."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 20). To get started finding Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, 20), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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