1st Edition

The Psychoanalytic Study of Society, V. 18 Essays in Honor of Alan Dundes

Edited By L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer Copyright 1993
    522 Pages
    by Routledge

    522 Pages
    by Routledge

    Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).

    1. Alan Dundes: An Introduction, Carroll  2. Gallus as Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play, Dundes  3. Folklore and Psychoanalysis: Another Look at "The Boyfriend's Death", Carroll  4. When a Lingam Is Just a Good Cigar: Psychoanalysis and Hindu Sexual Fantasies, Doniger  5. Of the Usurper's Ears, the Demon's Toes, and the Ayatollah's Fingers, Omidsalar  6. Spatial Symbolism in Southern Spain, Brandes  7. "Sweet Dreams, My Daughters": An Alaskan Eskimo Bedtime Story, Boyer  8. A Phantom Fairy Tale, Among Others, Along Sigmund Freud's Intellectual Itinerary, Ginsburg  9. Black Hamlet: A Case of "Psychic Vivisection"? Dubow  10. A Psychoanalytic Study of Argentine Soccer, Suarez-Orozco  11. Interpretation by Allomotifs, Holbek  12. The Forging of the Sampo and Its Capture: The Oedipus Complex of Adolescence in Finnish Folklore, Haegglund  13. Pierced by Murugan's Lance: The Symbolism of Vow Fulfillment, Fuller  14. The Problem of Mourning in Jewish History, Falk  15. Sensible Beasts: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, and the Analysis of Myth, Morton  16. Mythology into Metapsychology: Freud's Misappropriation of Romanticism, Merkur  17. Freud, Goethe, and Origen: The Duality and Slaying of Moses, Rice  18. Fairy Tales Si, Myths No: Bruno Bettelheim's Antithesis, Segal  19. Christian Messianism, Meissner  20. Sacrificial Immortality: Toward a Theory of Suicidal Terrorism and Related Phenomena, Hazani  21. Self-Analysis, Applied Analysis, and Analytic Fieldwork: A Discussion of Methodology in Psychoanalytic Interdisciplinary Research, Sonnenberg

    Biography

    L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, Stephen M. Sonnenberg