Psychoanalysis, Philosophy and Myth in Contemporary Culture After Oedipus /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Voela, Angie (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Σειρά: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Aporia, the Sphinx, and the Hope that Life Will Make Sense
• 2. Ion's Aporia: Just Another Oedipus? 3. Towards a New Anthropogony? Tron Revisited
• 4. Forget Antigone?
• 5. The Abyss of the Other’s Desire or Greek Myth for (Neoliberal) Children
• 6. The Search for Origin in Riddley' Scott's Prometheus
• 7.Conclusion: Aporia, Commemoration, Hope. .