The many-minded man: the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic
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&#...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca, New York
Cornell University Press
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Myth and poetics II
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Odyssea
/ Epic
/ Psychology
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| Further subjects: | B
Homer Odyssey
B Epic poetry Themes, motives B Psychology and literature |
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Table of Contents |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | 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. "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xii, 342 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-5234-6 |
