RT Book
T1 The many-minded man: the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic
T2 Myth and poetics II
A1 Christensen, Joel
LA English
PP Ithaca, New York
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1693563819
AB 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.
AB "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"--
OP 342
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN PA4167
SN 978-1-5017-5234-6
K1 Homer : Odyssey
K1 Psychology and literature
K1 Epic poetry : Themes, motives