Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore

by Géza Róheim and Jane Wong

Book Overview

The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, this Hungarian analyst demonstrates the validity of Freudian theory in both Western and non-Western settings. These seventeen essays, written between...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028680
• ISBN13: 9780691028682
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"