Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
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Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

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Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

About this book

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, this Hungarian analyst demonstrates the validity of Freudian theory in both Western and non-Western settings. These seventeen essays, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Rcheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of readers to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends.


From Australian aboriginal mythology to Native American trickster tales, from the Grimm folktale canon to Hungarian folk belief, Rcheim explores a wide range of issues, such as the relationship of dreams to folklore and the primacy of infantile conditioning in the formation of adult fantasy. An introduction by folklorist Alan Dundes describes Rcheim's career, and each essay is prefaced by a brief consideration of its intellectual and bibliographical context.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9780691028682
9780691094717
eBook ISBN
9780691234212
Topic
Psychology
Subtopic
History & Theory in Psychology
Index
Psychology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter One: Psychoanalysis and the Folktale
  8. Chapter Two: The Significance of Stepping Over
  9. Chapter Three: Magic and Theft in European Folklore
  10. Chapter Four: Myth and Folktale
  11. Chapter Five: Saint Agatha and the Tuesday Woman
  12. Chapter Six: The Story of the Light That Disappeared
  13. Chapter Seven: The Thread of Life
  14. Chapter Eight: The Bear in the Haunted Mill
  15. Chapter Nine: Culture Hero and Trickster in North American Mythology
  16. Chapter Ten: Tom, Tit, Tot
  17. Chapter Eleven: Fire in the Dragon
  18. Chapter Twelve: Mythology of Arnhem Land
  19. Chapter Thirteen: Fairy Tale and Dream
  20. Chapter Fourteen: The Wolf and the Seven Kids
  21. Chapter Fifteen: Hansel and Gretel
  22. Chapter Sixteen: The Language of Birds
  23. Chapter Seventeen: Dame Holle: Dream and Folktale (Grimm No. 24)
  24. Index
  25. Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology

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