On Asking “Why?”
Review of: Henry Abramovitch, Why Odysseus Came Home as a Stranger and Other Puzzling Moments in the Life of Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Abraham, and Other Great Individuals, Asheville, North Carolina: Chiron Publications, 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21204591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Shulman (0000-0003-4731-6806, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 149-151 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jung Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1934-2039 • E-ISSN: 1934-2047 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19342039.2020.1822128 |
| OpenAlex | W3112247094 |
| Language | EN |
Jungian analyst Henry Abramovitch’s book is a set of meditative essays that seeks to explain the most mysterious moments in the lives of the cultural heroes mentioned in the book’s title. Each chapter begins with the word Why? and addresses a riddle in the subject’s biography. The riddle is partially answered by examining the psychological formation, traumas, transformative insights, and memories that we know about this person’s life and his or her mind. A wide-angle anthropological and comparative perspective is always in evidence, along with the strong impact of Jungian theory
Analytical psychology · Art · Biography · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Transformative learning · Visual arts · Computer Science · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |