The many-minded man the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic
This text explores the content, character, & structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind & provides for its audiences - both ancient & modern - a therapeutic model for coping with the exigen...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca, New York ; London :
Cornell University Press
[2020]
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| Colección: | Myth and poetics ;
2 Cornell scholarship online |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009862235106719 |
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: correspondences, coherence, and 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.
