Classical myth and psychoanalysis : ancient and modern stories of the self / edited by Vanda Zajko and Ellen O'Gorman.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

ix, 374 pages ; 22 cm.

First edition.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-355) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction. Myths and their Receptions: Narrative, Antiquity, and the Unconscious -- 2.Freud's Empedocles: The Future of a Dualism / Ellen O'Gorman / Vanda Zajko -- 3.Freud's Phallic Symbol / Bruce M. King -- 4.Myth, Religion, Illusion: How Freud Got His Fire Back / Daniel Orrells -- 5.Narcissism against Narcissus? A Classical Myth and its Influence on the Elaboration of Early Psychoanalysis from Binet to Jung / Richard H. Armstrong -- 6.'Who cares whether Pandora had a large pithos or a small pyxis?' Jane Harrison and the Emergence of a Dynamic Conception of the Unconscious / David Engels -- 7.Freud's Vergil / Vered Lev Kenaan -- 8.Juno and the Symptom / Gregory A. Staley -- 9.Tu Marcellus Eris: Nachträglichkeit in Aeneid 6 / Jeff Rodman -- 10.The Mythic Foundation of Law / Ika Willis -- 11.Obeying Your Father: Stoic Theology between Myth and Masochism / Victoria Wohl -- 12.Valerius Maximus and the Hysteria of Virtue / Kurt Lampe -- 13.Mythology and the Abject in Imperial Satire / Erik Gunderson -- 14.Playing with Fire Prometheus and the Mythological Consciousness / Paul Allen Miller -- 15.The Ethics of Metamorphosis or A Poet Between Two Deaths / Meg Harris Williams -- 16.'In the beginning was the Deed': On Oedipus and Cain / Oliver Harris -- 17.Aristophanes' Myth of Eros and Contemporary Psychologies of the Self / Jens De Vleminck -- 18.Aristotle on Poets as Parents and the Hellenistic Poet as Mother / Marcia Dobson / John Riker -- 19.Listening, Counter-Transference, and the Classicist as 'Subject-Supposed-to-Know' / Mark Payne.