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The many-minded man : the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic /

"Argues that the Odyssey explores the development and dysfunction of human minds and provides for its audiences-both ancient and modern-a basic theory of human mental function and identity as well as approaches or treatments when the mind in some way fails"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Christensen, Joel (Joel P.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Colección:Myth and poetics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Homeric psychology
  • Treating Telemachus : education and learned helplessness
  • Escape from Ogygia : an isolated man
  • Odysseus's Apologoi and narrative therapy
  • Odysseus's lies : correspondence, coherence, and the narrative agency
  • Marginalized agencies and narrative selves
  • Penelope's subordinated agency
  • The politics of Ithaca : from collective trauma to amnesty's end
  • The therapy of oblivion, unforgettable pain and the Odyssey's end
  • Conclusion: escaping (the) story's bounds.