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Love and the Soul

James Gollnick
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Eros
eros and psyche
folklore
Freud
Freudian
Jung
Jungian
mythology
psyche
psychology

Product details

  • ISBN 9780889202122
  • Weight: 300g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 May 1992
  • Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Publication City/Country: CA
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description
The Eros and Psyche myth has, over the course of the twentieth century, received nearly as much attention from depth psychologists as has the Oedipus story. In their attempt to better understand this popular story, scholars have proposed various interpretations, which have generally followed eithether Freudian or Jungian theories about the nature of the psyche and its development.

This elaborate work provides serious students of psychology, religion and mythology with a detailed account and analysis of what has been accomplished in the spychological interpretation of the Eros and Psyche myth to date. It emphasizes how psychological theory determines the direction of interpretation much more than does the literary context of the myth itself. It also examines the strengths and weaknesses of these psychological interpretations (five Freudian and six Jungian) of the Eros and Psyche myth in order to lay the groundwork for an interpretation which (1) avoids the rigidity of both Freudian and Jungian dogma and (2) restores the myth to its rightful literary and religious context - something which has been ignored by most psychological interpretations.
About James Gollnick
Dr. Gollnick taught at the University of Toronto for over twenty years and now teaches at St. Paul's College at the University of Waterloo. He has a private practice in psychotherapy and has written previous books on Anselm of Canterbury and dream interpretation in the psychology of religion. His main areas of research are dream analysis and the psychology of religion.

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