The Glory of Hera : : Greek Mythology and the Greek Family / / Philip Elliot Slater.

The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by their intelligence and creativity." Thus writes Philip Slater in this classic work on narcissism and family relati...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1992
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology ; 606
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Part One: ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES
  • CHAPTER I. The Greek Mother-Son Relationship: Origins and Consequences
  • CHAPTER II. Symbols, the Serpent, and the Oral-Narcissistic Dilemma
  • Part Two: MYTHICAL DEFENSES AGAINST THE MATERNAL THREAT
  • CHAPTER III. Sexual Dominance: Zeus
  • CHAPTER IV. Masculine Antisepsis: Apollo
  • CHAPTER V. Matricide: Orestes
  • CHAPTER VI. Self-Emasculation: Hephaestus
  • CHAPTER VII. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus
  • CHAPTER VIII. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus
  • CHAPTER IX. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus
  • CHAPTER X. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus
  • CHAPTER XI. Maternal De-Sexualization: Perseus
  • CHAPTER XII. The Multiple Defenses of Heracles
  • Part Three: QUANTIFICATIONS, GENERALIZATIONS, AND IMPLICATIONS
  • CHAPTER XIII. Familial Emphases in Greek Myth: A Statistical Analysis
  • CHAPTER XIVI. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Maternal Ambivalence and Narcissism
  • CHAPTER XV. Cultural Pathology and Cultural Development
  • APPENDIXES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • Backmatter