Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture After Oedipus /

• Main Author: Voela, Angie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Psychoanalysis.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Self and Identity.; Social Philosophy.; Regional and Cultural Studies.

This book examines the use of myth in contemporary popular and high culture, and proposes that the aporetic subject, the individual that ‘does not know’, is the ideal contemporary subject. Using several contemporary novels, films and theatrical plays that illustrate aporia – such as Percy Jackson an...