Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics.

Intro -- Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1 From wrath to ruth -- Introduction: of time and mortality -- Achilles' metabasis -- Epilegomena -- 2 Homer's theory of poetry: Psychoanalytic notes on the primal metaphor -- Metaphora -- In the court of Scheria -- Aoidé -- A metaphor of the primal metaphor -- 3 The return of Odysseus: Questions of time, space, and creative discovery -- Time, space -- Nostalgia and epistemophilia -- 4 The other journey: Nekyia -- 5 The tragic in the Iliad -- The tragic -- The tragic in the Iliad -- The tragic act -- Concluding remarks -- Epilogue ον φωνήεν -- Bibliography.

This work attempts a psychoanalytic listening to the 'oral' Homeric epics in an effort to extract, as it were, from the ancient text certain elements of psychoanalytic understanding that are of relevance to contemporary psychoanalysis. There is, in addition, a consideration of related philosophical and linguistic issues that are linked to the basic psychoanalytic concepts that emerge from such a listening.

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