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Book SynopsisOriginally published: Beacon Press, 1968.
Trade Review"This deeply probing and elegantly written book interprets the charged sexual structure of the ancient Greek family and compares ancient narcissism with that of contemporary middle-class America."--Publishers Weekly
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. xxvii*CHAPTER I. The Greek Mother-Son Relationship: Origins and Consequences, pg. 3*CHAPTER II. Symbols, the Serpent, and the Oral-Narcissistic Dilemma, pg. 75*CHAPTER III. Sexual Dominance: Zeus, pg. 125*CHAPTER IV. Masculine Antisepsis: Apollo, pg. 137*CHAPTER V. Matricide: Orestes, pg. 161*CHAPTER VI. Self-Emasculation: Hephaestus, pg. 193*CHAPTER VII. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus, pg. 210*CHAPTER VIII. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus, pg. 230*CHAPTER IX. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus, pg. 264*CHAPTER X. Identification with the Aggressor: Dionysus, pg. 285*CHAPTER XI. Maternal De-Sexualization: Perseus, pg. 308*CHAPTER XII. The Multiple Defenses of Heracles, pg. 337*CHAPTER XIII. Familial Emphases in Greek Myth: A Statistical Analysis, pg. 399*CHAPTER XIVI. A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Maternal Ambivalence and Narcissism, pg. 410*CHAPTER XV. Cultural Pathology and Cultural Development, pg. 440*APPENDIXES, pg. 467*BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 481*INDEX, pg. 503
