Anteros
Subtitle: a forgotten myth
By: Craig E. Stephenson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780415572309; 9780415572316
Subjects: Sex (Psychology); Psychoanalysis; Psychology; Myth
Description: Anteros: A Forgotten Myth explores how the myth of Anteros disappears and reappears throughout the centuries, from classical Athens to the present day, and looks at how the myth challenges the work of Freud, Lacan, and Jung, among others. It examines the successive cultural experiences that formed and inform the myth and also how the myth sheds light on individual human experience and the psychoanalytic process ... -- Book Cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Resident alien : Anteros in classical Greek and Roman settings; title: La recuperation : Anteros in the Italian Renaissance; title: Anteros as contr'amour in the french enlightenment; title: Chthonic Anteros in the French romantic cosmology; title: Anteros at the threshold of English modernism; title: Contemporary artists of the anterotic; title: Psychologizing Anteros : Freud, Lacan, Girard; title: Psychologizing Anteros : Jung; title: Three anterotic moments in a consulting room; title: An open end : Anteros as a more visible mystery.