The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contrib

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contrib

"For those who have not previously read R?heim and who have at least an open mind on the possibility of applying psychoanalytic theory to folklore, you have an

Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic

This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric