The many-minded man: the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic
THE MANY-MINDED MAN -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Title, Texts, Transliterations, and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Homeric Psychology -- Chapter 2 Treating Telemachus, Education, and Learned Helplessness -- Chapter 3 Escaping Ogygia, An Isolated Man -- Cha...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca
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 Homer.-Odyssey B Epic poetry Themes, motives B Electronic books B Psychology and literature |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | THE MANY-MINDED MAN -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Title, Texts, Transliterations, and Translations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Homeric Psychology -- Chapter 2 Treating Telemachus, Education, and Learned Helplessness -- Chapter 3 Escaping Ogygia, An Isolated Man -- Chapter 4 Odysseus's Apologoi and Narrative Therapy -- Chapter 5 Odysseus's Lies: Correspondence, Coherence, and the Narrative Agent -- Chapter 6 Marginalized Agencies and Narrative Selves -- Chapter 7 Penelope's Subordinated Agency -- Chapter 8 The Politics of Ithaca: From Collective Trauma to Amnesty's End -- Chapter 9 The Therapy of Oblivion, Unforgettable Pain, and the Odyssey's End -- Conclusion: Escaping (the) Story's Bounds -- Works Cited -- Index of Ancient Passages -- Index of Subjects. "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: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-5235-3 |
