Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Publications of Alan Dundes
1. Alan Dundes: An Introduction
2. Gallus as Phallus: A Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play
3. Folklore and Psychoanalysis: Another Look at “The Boyfriend’s Death”
4. When a Lingam Is Just a Good Cigar: Psychoanalysis and Hindu Sexual Fantasies
5. Of the Usurper’s Ears, the Demon’s Toes, and the Ayatollah’s Fingers
6. Spatial Symbolism in Southern Spain
7. “Sweet Dreams, My Daughters”: An Alaskan Eskimo Bedtime Story
8. A Phantom Fairy Tale, Among Others, Along Sigmund Freud’s Intellectual Itinerary
9. Black Hamlet: A Case of “Psychic Vivisection”?
10. A Psychoanalytic Study of Argentine Soccer
11. Interpretation by Allomotifs
12. The Forging of the Sampo and Its Capture: The Oedipus Complex of Adolescence in Finnish Folklore
13. Pierced by Murugan’s Lance: The Symbolism of Vow Fulfillment
14. The Problem of Mourning in Jewish History
15. Sensible Beasts: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, and the Analysis of Myth
16. Mythology into Metapsychology: Freud’s Misappropriation of Romanticism
17. Freud, Goethe, and Origen: The Duality and Slaying of Moses
18. Fairy Tales Sí, Myths No: Bruno Bettelheim’s Antithesis
19. Christian Messianism
20. Sacrificial Immortality: Toward a Theory of Suicidal Terrorism and Related Phenomena
21. Self-Analysis, Applied Analysis, and Analytic Fieldwork: A Discussion of Methodology in Psychoanalytic Interdisciplinary Research
Author Index
Subject Index

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