Opening with a critical appreciation of Alan Dundes (M. Carroll) and Dundes's own cross-cultural study of the cockfight, Volume 18 includes chapters on psychoanalysis and Hindu sexual fantasies (W. Doniger); the modern folk tale "The Boyfriend's Death" (M. Carroll); a gruesome Eskimo bedtime story (R. Boyer); the homosexual implications of Argentinean soccer (M. Suarez-Orozco); and the symbolism of a Malaysian religious festival (E. Fuller).
1. Alan Dundes: An Introduction, Carroll
2. Gallus as Phallus: A
Psychoanalytic Cross-Cultural Consideration of the Cockfight as Fowl Play,
Dundes
3. Folklore and Psychoanalysis: Another Look at "The Boyfriend's
Death", Carroll
4. When a Lingam Is Just a Good Cigar: Psychoanalysis and
Hindu Sexual Fantasies, Doniger
5. Of the Usurper's Ears, the Demon's Toes,
and the Ayatollah's Fingers, Omidsalar
6. Spatial Symbolism in Southern
Spain, Brandes
7. "Sweet Dreams, My Daughters": An Alaskan Eskimo Bedtime
Story, Boyer
8. A Phantom Fairy Tale, Among Others, Along Sigmund Freud's
Intellectual Itinerary, Ginsburg
9. Black Hamlet: A Case of "Psychic
Vivisection"? Dubow
10. A Psychoanalytic Study of Argentine Soccer,
Suarez-Orozco
11. Interpretation by Allomotifs, Holbek
12. The Forging of the
Sampo and Its Capture: The Oedipus Complex of Adolescence in Finnish
Folklore, Haegglund
13. Pierced by Murugan's Lance: The Symbolism of Vow
Fulfillment, Fuller
14. The Problem of Mourning in Jewish History, Falk
15.
Sensible Beasts: Psychoanalysis, Structuralism, and the Analysis of Myth,
Morton
16. Mythology into Metapsychology: Freud's Misappropriation of
Romanticism, Merkur
17. Freud, Goethe, and Origen: The Duality and Slaying of
Moses, Rice
18. Fairy Tales Si, Myths No: Bruno Bettelheim's Antithesis,
Segal
19. Christian Messianism, Meissner
20. Sacrificial Immortality: Toward
a Theory of Suicidal Terrorism and Related Phenomena, Hazani
21.
Self-Analysis, Applied Analysis, and Analytic Fieldwork: A Discussion of
Methodology in Psychoanalytic Interdisciplinary Research, Sonnenberg
L. Bryce Boyer, Ruth M. Boyer, Stephen M. Sonnenberg
