From game to war and other psychoanalytic essays on folklore
By: Alan Dundes.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 123
Subjects: Folklore -- Psychological aspects.; Folklore -- United States.; Psychoanalysis and folklore -- United States.
Other titles: From game to war
Description: Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory. Freud and some of his early disciples recognized the potential of such folkloristic genres as myth, folktale, and legend to illuminate the intricate workings of the human psyche.

In this volume Alan Dundes, a renowned folklorist who has successfully devoted the better part of his career to applying psychoanalytic theory to the materials of folklore, offers five of his most recent and mature essays on this topic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The psychological study of folklore in the United States; title: Traditional male combat : from game to war; title: The apple-shot : interpreting the legend of William Tell; title: The flood as male myth of creation; title: Why is the Jew "dirty"? : a psychological study of anti-Semitic folklore.