Author: Johnson, Allen & Price-Williams, Douglass
Title: Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1996). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xv,342 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Analysis: A Brief History of Research on Family-Complex Tales: Psychoanalytic & Anthropological Approaches: Freud on Oedipus; The Focus on Oedipus: The Early Revisionists; The Freudian Response; Other Kinds of Family Complex: Father-Daughter Incest; Brother-Sister Incest Non- Psychoanalytic Perspectives from Folklore & Anthropology: Myth & Folktale; Classical Approaches; The Oedipus Tale in Historical Context; Structural Approaches, Discusion; The Evidence from World Folk Literature: Is Oedipus Ubiquitous?The Greek Tale & Its Relative; The Oedipal Tale in Time & Space;How Do We Know a Tale is Oedipal? Oedipus in the Rest of the World; Variations on a Theme; Father-Daughter Incest Tales; Tales of Brother- Sister Incest; Versions of the Family Complex; Results of Quantitative Analysis; the Theory of the Family Complex in Folk Literature: Previous Theory in Light of Our Collection of Folktales: The Cultural Relativist Critique; The Folkloric & Structuralist Critique; Oedipal Tales & Oedipus Complex: Folktales & Intrapsychic Conflict; Totem & Taboo Reexamined; The Folktales: Europe & Euro-America; Middle East & Africa; South & East Asia; Oceania; Native North America; Native South America.

Keywords: Comparative Folklore, Anthropology, Literary Criticism, Ethnography Myth, Folktales Mythology, Oedipal Oedipus, Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic, Family Complex