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The cry for myth / Rollo May.

May, Rollo. (Author).

Summary:

An examination of myths as they are immediately present in the consciousness and unconsciousness of contemporary living people in the West. May traces myths--Classical Greece, Dante's Middle Ages, European legend, and contemporary American life--and relates them to the dreams and associations he encounters in his practice as a psychotherapist.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393027686
  • ISBN: 9780393027686
  • ISBN: 0393331776
  • ISBN: 9780393331776
  • Physical Description: 320 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Norton, ©1991.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note:
What is a myth? -- Our personal crises in myths -- In search of our roots -- Myth and memory -- Freud and the mystery of myths -- The great myth of the new land -- Individualism and our age of narcissism -- Gatsby and the American dream -- The therapist and the journey into hell -- Peer Gynt : a man's problem in loving -- Briar Rose revisited -- Faust : the myth of patriarchal power -- Goethe's Faust and the Enlightenment -- Faust in the twentieth century -- The devil and creativity -- The great circle of love.
Subject:
Mythology > Therapeutic use.
Psychotherapy.
Mythology > psychology.
Psychotherapy > methods.
Mythology Therapeutic use.
Mythologie > Emploi en thérapeutique.
Psychothérapie.
Mythology > Therapeutic use.
Psychotherapy.
Mythologie
Psychotherapie

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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Lummi Library RC 489 .M96 M39 1991 679519 Stacks Available -