Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

by Alan Dundes

Book Overview

Bloody Mary in the Mirror mixes Sigmund Freud with vampires and The Little Mermaid to see what new light psychoanalysis can bring to folklore techniques and forms.

Ever since Freud published his analysis of Jewish jokes in 1905 and his disciple Otto Rank followed with his groundbreaking The Myth of the Birth of the Hero in 1909, the psychoanalytic study of folklore has been an acknowledged part of applied psychoanalysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604731877
• ISBN13: 9781604731873
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"