Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist
by Alan Dundes
University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
Cloth: 978-0-299-11260-8 | Paper: 978-0-299-11264-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-11263-9 (PDF)
Library of Congress Classification GR42.D86 1987
Dewey Decimal Classification 398.019
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes’ work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children’s games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.
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