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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.
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A Cry for Myth
March 25, 1993, Souvenir Press Ltd
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Reprint. Orginallly published: New York : Norton, 1991.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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