Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

by Géza Róheim, Alan Dundes
ISBN-10:
0691028680
ISBN-13:
9780691028682
Pub. Date:
07/15/1992
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10:
0691028680
ISBN-13:
9780691028682
Pub. Date:
07/15/1992
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

by Géza Róheim, Alan Dundes

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Overview

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, this Hungarian analyst demonstrates the validity of Freudian theory in both Western and non-Western settings. These seventeen essays, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Rcheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of readers to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends.


From Australian aboriginal mythology to Native American trickster tales, from the Grimm folktale canon to Hungarian folk belief, Rcheim explores a wide range of issues, such as the relationship of dreams to folklore and the primacy of infantile conditioning in the formation of adult fantasy. An introduction by folklorist Alan Dundes describes Rcheim's career, and each essay is prefaced by a brief consideration of its intellectual and bibliographical context.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780691028682
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 07/15/1992
Series: Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology , #545
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ch. 1 Psychoanalysis and the Folktale 3

Ch. 2 The Significance of Stepping Over 11

Ch. 3 Magic and Theft in European Folklore 19

Ch. 4 Myth and Folktale 29

Ch. 5 Saint Agatha and the Tuesday Woman 43

Ch. 6 The Story of the Light That Disappeared 59

Ch. 7 The Thread of Life 87

Ch. 8 The Bear in the Haunted Mill 103

Ch. 9 Culture Hero and Trickster in North American Mythology 115

Ch. 10 Tom, Tit, Tot 123

Ch. 11 Fire in the Dragon 129

Ch. 12 Mythology of Arnhem Land 139

Ch. 13 Fairy Tale and Dream 147

Ch. 14 The Wolf and the Seven Kids 161

Ch. 15 Hansel and Gretel 167

Ch. 16 The Language of Birds 171

Ch. 17 Dame Holle: Dream and Folktale (Grimm No. 24) 181

Index 193




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Alan Dundes

For those who have not previously read Róheim and who have at least an open mind on the possibility of applying psychoanalytic theory to folklore, you have an exciting intellectual treat in store for you. Once having read Róheim, you will never be able to look at folklore again as you did before exposure to these remarkable essays.
Alan Dundes, from the Introduction

From the Publisher

"For those who have not previously read Róheim and who have at least an open mind on the possibility of applying psychoanalytic theory to folklore, you have an exciting intellectual treat in store for you. Once having read Róheim, you will never be able to look at folklore again as you did before exposure to these remarkable essays."—Alan Dundes, from the Introduction

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