ABSTRACT

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

chapter |12 pages

Mythology into Metapsychology

chapter |18 pages

Myth as Unconscious Manifestation

chapter |18 pages

Myth and the Basic Dream

chapter |36 pages

Myth as Defense and Adaptation

chapter |37 pages

Myth as Metaphor

chapter |13 pages

Therapeutic Insights in Myth

chapter |3 pages

Epilogue

Clinical Implications