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Psychic Mimesis from Bible and Homer to Now
Inner Lives Over Time
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2023
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How did we develop our current views of inner life? Psychic Mimesis From Bible and Homer to the Present: Inner Life Over Time reaches back to Biblical and Homeric times, then sweeps across over two millennia of Western literature to answer this question. We discover that while there are discrete contributions from different eras/cultures about inner life—volition, ego ideal, superego, development as a journey, relatedness, even the fact of innerness—there are also at least three trends that have endured from the beginning of our literature and continue as ostinatos beneath each theme and variation of development. These are emotions and our need to conceal and reveal secrets and attachment that is our ability to explore from a secure base. This book takes us through the journey of discovery to arrive at our twenty-first century sense of self and inner life. We follow Auerbach’s text, Mimesis, as a guide through the literature, but add surprises such as Maimonides’ Guide to the perplexed or Rousseau’s Confessions to arrive at the sense that while there are particularities to eras and cultures, there is also something universal that resonates with us and endures.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2255-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2256-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
186
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Father—Son Reunions No access Pages 15 - 28
The Son of God No access Pages 29 - 34
Ovid’s Incarnations No access Pages 35 - 44
Maimonides (Twelfth Century) No access Pages 45 - 68
Dante and Virgil No access Pages 69 - 84
Shakespeare No access Pages 85 - 96
Rousseau’s Confessions and the Birth of Autobiography as a Genre (and Its Twin-Inner Development No access Pages 97 - 114
Enchanting Tales, Enchanted Children No access Pages 115 - 126
Flaubert No access Pages 127 - 136
From the “I” to the “We” No access Pages 137 - 150
Denoument/Inner Life’s Life Course No access Pages 151 - 174
