Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis

Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis presents a dialogue between psychoanalysis and folktales from the Greek oral tradition, many of which have never before been published in English. Each folktale or group of related tales is presented in full, followed by an analytic text that explores the central themes. The wealth of tales includes versions of oral stories that have been passed down through generations and that will provide professionals in the psychoanalytic field with a vast, unexpected panoply of strong images and metaphors on which to draw in their clinical work. Greek Folktales and Psychoanalysis will be of great interest to psychoanalysts in practice and in training. It will also be relevant reading for academics and students of psychoanalytic literary criticism, folklore and oral tradition, Greek history and culture, mythology and anthropology.

Anna Angelopoulos is a psychoanalyst and anthropologist based in Paris, France. She has worked on and continues to oversee the Catalogue of Magic Greek Folktales, and she conducts a seminar entitled The Folktale and Psychoanalysis in collaboration with Sylvette Gendre-Dusuzeau. Anna Angelopoulos is a member of the Fédération des Ateliers de Psychanalyse and was its president from 2010 to 2014.

1. The Folktale as Therapeutic Tool, Narrative, Creation and Healing 2. Feminine Rivalry Snow White and Cinderella Stories 3. Creating the Male Hero 4. Cupid and Psyche or The Search for the Lost Husband 5. The Realm of Mythical and Psychical Metamorphoses 6. From Myth to Folktale 7. The Representation of the Unthinkable 8. The Riddle Tale 9. Therapeutic Language in Folktales 10. Lying and Popular Fiction