Psychoanalytic scholia on the Homeric epics / By Konstantinos I. Arvanitakis.

Author/creator Arvanitakis, Konstantinos I.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
Description114 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Homer--Criticism and interpretation.
Homer--Knowledge. --Psychology.

SeriesContemporary psychoanalytic studies, 1571-4977 ; volume 20
Contents Prologue -- From wrath to ruth -- Introduction: of time and mortality -- Achilles' metabasis -- Epilegomena -- Homer's theory of poetry: psychoanalytic notes on the primal metaphor -- Metaphora in the court of Scheria -- Aoide: a metaphor of the primal metaphor -- The return of Odysseus: questions of time, space, and creative discovery -- Time, space -- Nostalgia and epistemophilia -- The other journey: Nekyia -- The tragic in the Iliad -- The tragic -- the tragic in the Iliad -- the tragic act -- Concluding remarks -- Epilogue.
Scope and content "This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the 'oral' Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical and linguistic issues that are linked to the basic psychoanalytic concepts that emerge from such a listening. The main themes treated rotate around the central axis of time as it is expressed in the Homeric epics. Thus, questions of transition, loss, mourning, tolerance, identity, metaphor and tragic fragmentation are addressed as they relate to the ancient text. The process of metabasis along contrasting psychic states of being is discussed as it provides the frame for the construction of the basic interval of time and of the flux of human identity. Although psychoanalysis from its early beginnings has shown - largely owing to Freud's positing the Oedipus complex as the nuclear conflict - a distinct interest in classical Antiquity, the area of the great Homeric Epics has been singularly neglected as a chosen focus of psychoanalytic attention. It is as if the Homeric Epics belonged to a prehistoric pre-Oedipal world which, for a long time, was not the dominant concern of psychoanalysis. The merit of this book lies in the fact that it fills part of this lacuna in psychoanalytic studies". -- Provided by publisher
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 109-114).
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LCCN 2015008289
ISBN9789042039278 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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