Psychoanalytic scholia on the Homeric epics /

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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 phil...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
Series:Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; Volume 20.
Subjects:
Homer > Criticism and interpretation.
Homer > Knowledge > Psychology.
Homer
Poetry > History.
Poésie > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
Poetry
Psychology
Greece.
Greece
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • From wrath to ruth
  • Introduction: of time and mortality
  • Achilles' metabasis
  • Epilegomena
  • Homer's theory of poetry: psychoanalytic notes on the primal metaphor
  • Metaphora in the court of Scheria
  • Aoide: a metaphor of the primal metaphor
  • The return of Odysseus: questions of time, space, and creative discovery
  • Time, space
  • Nostalgia and epistemophilia
  • The other journey: Nekyia
  • The tragic in the Iliad
  • The tragic
  • the tragic in the Iliad
  • the tragic act
  • Concluding remarks
  • Epilogue.

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