This is a new release of the original 1955 edition.

Magic and Schizophrenia

Literature & Fiction

Géza Róheim

Literary

Indiana University Press, Bloomington

Chldr of the Desert

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Basic Books

Animism, Magic, and the Divine King

<p>If the ancient kingdom of Sumer was the due of the serpent or bull hero who defeated the old serpent or bull and had access to the Divine Mother we can understand why her love appears to be a dangerous boon in later ages. For year by year the chosen of Ishtar has to encounter a foe of his own blood and one of the two "bulls" is dispatched to the country without return. -from "The Divine King" Thoroughly fascinating and totally engrossing, this 1930 work is an exploration of myth and magic in ancient cultures and how they tapped into the most elemental of human experiences-sex, death, tribalism, and war-to lay the foundations of modern religion, contemporary politics, and even the tradition of scientific inquiry. Armchair anthropologists, readers of comparative mythology, and anyone interested in the fundamental basis of the human subconscious will find this book extraordinarily enlightening. Hungarian anthropologist GÉZA RÓHEIM (1891-1953) was the first professor of anthropology at the University of Budapest, a position he held from 1919 to 1938, when he fled to the United States to escape the unrest of Europe just prior to World War II. He is also the author of The Riddle of the Sphinx (1934), The Origin and Function of Culture (1943), The Eternal Ones of the Dream (1945), and The Gates of the Dream (1952).</p>

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

Cosimo Classics

La presente obra de Géza Róheim fue la primera que se publicó en castellano de esta figura eminente en los campos de la psicología, el psicoanálisis y la antropología contemporáneos. En ella el autor realiza una de sus principales contribuciones a la comprensión de muchos difíciles fenómenos clínicos que ocurren en la esquizofrenia, así como al origen y comprensión de la magia. En la primera parte del libro se analizan diversos mitos y relatos folklóricos que hombres de todos los rincones del mundo desarrollaron con el objeto de mitigar sus angustias básicas. La segunda parte es un profundo y detallado análisis de fantasías esquizofrénicas, examinándose las notables semejanzas entre esas fantasías y los mitos primitivos.Este libro, que ha sido calificado como 'una de las mas significativas contribuciones del psicoanálisis y la antropología al tema central de la relación entre magia y esquizofrenia (International Journal of Psychoanalysis), viene a llenar un sentido vacío en la literatura científica en castellano, pues es una obra básica, de lectura indispensable para todo estudioso interesado en el problema, difícil al par que apasionante, del pensamiento esquizofrénico.

Magia Y Esquizofrenia (Psicopatología y Psicosomática)

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