Melville's Moby Dick - An American Nekyia: An American Nekyia (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts)

The great American novel Moby-Dick is a psychological document which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for its meaning to emerge fully. The subtitle of this work underscores the correspondence between Melville's deep internal struggle and the hidden complexities within us all. Dr. Edinger approaches Moby-Dick as a psychological document, a symbolic record of an intense inner experience which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for their meaning to emerge fully. His exploration elucidates the psychological significance of the book, demonstrates the Jungian approach to symbolic material, and illustrates many of the basic therapeutic concepts of Jung's analytical psychology. Annotation. Moby-Dick is a psychological document which, like a dream, needs interpretation and elaboration of its images for its meaning to emerge fully. The subtitle of this work underscores the correspondence between Melville's deep internal struggle and the hidden complexities within us all Series numbering inferred from publisher's listing.