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HOMER PSYCHOANALYSED - K.I. Arvanitakis Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics. (Contemporary Psycholanalytic Studies 20.) Pp. viii + 114. Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2015. Paper, €29, US$38. ISBN: 978-90-420-3927-8.

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K.I. Arvanitakis Psychoanalytic Scholia on the Homeric Epics. (Contemporary Psycholanalytic Studies 20.) Pp. viii + 114. Leiden and Boston: Brill Rodopi, 2015. Paper, €29, US$38. ISBN: 978-90-420-3927-8.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr*
Affiliation:
University of New Mexico

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1 A. cites Hegel and relies on a chapter from H. Fränkel's Early Greek Poetry and Philosophy, reprinted in H. Bloom, Homer: a Modern Critical Assessment (1986). He does not refer to B. Snell in his bibliography, but makes claims that seem to depend on his work (pp. 72, 77, 107).

2 See, esp., Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), An Outline of Psycho-Analysis (1940); Klein, Contributions to Psychoanalysis (1948), The Writings of Melanie Klein, Vol. 1 (1975); Winnicott, The Maturational Process and the Facilitating Environment (1965), Playing and Reality (1971).

3 Note A.'s reference to Freud's Fort-Da at pp. 21, 53; cf. Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) in Standard Edition 18, pp. 14–15.

4 Cf. L. Muellner, The Anger of Achilles: Mēnis in Greek Epic (1996).