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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1. Verfasser: Christensen, Joel (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca, New York Cornell University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Myth and poetics II
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Zusammenfassung: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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xii, 342 pages
ISBN:9781501752346
978-1-5017-5234-6
9781501752353
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