July 13th BPS/UCL Seminar! "The Course of Modern Psychoanalysing About Myth"
2015.07.02 Events, General, SeminarsBPS, Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines, History of Psychology Centre, myth, psychoanalysis, Robert Segal, UCLJacy Young
The British Psychological Society's History of Psychology Centre, in conjunction with UCL's Centre for the History of the Psychological Disciplines, has announced the next talk as part of its summer term BPS History of Psychological Disciplines Seminar Series. On Monday July 13th Robert Segal of the University of Aberdeen, will be speaking on "The Course of Modern Psychoanalysing About Myth." Full details follow below.
Professor Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen), The Course of Modern Psychoanalysing About Myth
This talk will trace the history of psychoanalysing about myth through the major figures: Freud, Rank, Roheim, Arlow, Bettelheim, Jung. and Campbell. Myth has never been just an unconscious expression of the Oedipus complex and over the years has become much more.
Robert Segal is the author of The Poimandres as Myth: Scholarly Theory and Gnostic Meaning, Religion and the Social Sciences: Essays on the Confrontation, Joseph Campbell: An Introduction. Explaining and Interpreting Religion, Theorizing about Myth and Myth: A Very Short Introduction, among other works.
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