Many-Minded Man: The Odyssey, Psychology, and the Therapy of Epic

by Joel Christensen

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In The Many-Minded Man, Joel Christensen explores the content, character, and structure of the Homeric Odyssey through a modern psychological lens, focusing on how the epic both represents the workings of the human mind and provides for its audiences-both ancient and modern-a therapeutic model for coping with the exigencies of chance and fate.

By reading the Odyssey as an exploration of the constitutive elements of human identity,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1501752340

ISBN13:9781501752346

Release Date:December 2020

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Age Range:18 years and up

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