Bloody Mary in the mirror: essays in psychoanalytic folkloristics
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Main Author: Dundes, Alan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson University Press of Mississippi c2002
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
The psychoanalytic study of religious custom and belief: ritual fasting, self-mutilation, and the Deus Otiosus -- The vampire as bloodthirsty revenant: a psychoanalytic post mortem -- Projective inversion in the ancient Egyptian "Tale of two brothers" -- The trident and the fork: Disney's "The little mermaid" as a male construction of an Electral fantasy (with Lauren Dundes) -- Bloody Mary in the mirror: a ritual reflection of pre-pubescent anxiety -- The elephant walk and other amazing hazing: male fraternity initiation through infantilization and feminization (with Lauren Dundes) -- The Greek game of Makria Yaidoura [long donkey]: an adolescent articulation of a Mediterranean model of masculinity
"Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can shed on folklore techniques and forms." "Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of the Birth of the Hero in 1909, the psychoanalytic study of folklore has been an acknowledged part of applied psychoanalysis." "All of the essays in this volume create new takes on old traditions. Bloody Mary in the Mirror is an expedition into psychoanalytic folklore techniques and constitutes a giant step towards realizing the potential Freud's work promises for folklore studies."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 141 p.)
ISBN:9781621031512
1621031519
1578064619
9781578064618

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