From game to war : and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore /

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"Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folkloristic genres as myth, folktale, and legend to i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dundes, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, ©1997.
Subjects:
Folklore > Psychological aspects.
Folklore > United States.
Psychoanalysis and folklore > United States.
Folklore > Aspect psychologique.
Folklore > États-Unis.
Psychanalyse et folklore > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore.
Psychoanalysis and folklore.
United States.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The psychological study of folklore in the United States
  • Traditional male combat : from game to war
  • The apple-shot : interpreting the legend of William Tell
  • The flood as male myth of creation
  • Why is the Jew "dirty"? : a psychological study of anti-Semitic folklore.

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