The many-minded man the Odyssey, psychology, and the therapy of epic
"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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Ithaca ; London
Cornell University Press
2020
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| Schriftenreihe: | Myth and poetics II
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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