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Parsing through Customs: Essays by a Freudian Folklorist

$18.95
Author: Alan Dundes

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0299112640
ISBN 13: 978-0299112646

In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes' work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children's games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.