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...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .