The Many-Minded Man : : The "Odyssey," Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic / / Joel Christensen.
In The Many-Minded Man, Joel Christensen explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences—both ancient and modern—a therapeutic model for c...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2020] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Myth and Poetics II
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 2 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Title, Texts, Transliterations, and Translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Homeric Psychology
- Chapter 2 Treating Telemachus, Education, and Learned Helplessness
- Chapter 3 Escaping Ogygia, An Isolated Man
- Chapter 4 Odysseus’s Apologoi and Narrative Therapy
- Chapter 5 Odysseus’s Lies
- Chapter 6 Marginalized Agencies and Narrative Selves
- Chapter 7 Penelope’s Subordinated Agency
- Chapter 8 The Politics of Ithaca
- Chapter 9 The Therapy of Oblivion, Unforgettable Pain, and the Odyssey’s End
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index of Ancient Passages
- Index of Subjects