Among folk rituals investigated is the girl's game of "Bloody Mary." Elementary or middle school-age girls huddle in a darkened bathroom awaiting the appearance in the mirror of a frightening apparition. The plausible analysis of this well-known -- if somewhat puzzling -- American rite is one of many surprising and enlightening finds in this book. All of the essays in this remarkable volume create new takes on old traditions. Bloody Mary in the Mirror is an expedition into psychoanalytic folklore techniques and constitutes a giant step towards realizing the potential Freud's work promises for folklore studies.
Among folk rituals investigated is the girl's game of "Bloody Mary." Elementary or middle school-age girls huddle in a darkened bathroom awaiting the appearance in the mirror of a frightening apparition. The plausible analysis of this well-known -- if somewhat puzzling -- American rite is one of many surprising and enlightening finds in this book. All of the essays in this remarkable volume create new takes on old traditions. Bloody Mary in the Mirror is an expedition into psychoanalytic folklore techniques and constitutes a giant step towards realizing the potential Freud's work promises for folklore studies.
Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics
141Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics
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ISBN-13: | 9781604735963 |
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Publisher: | University Press of Mississippi |
Publication date: | 09/28/2009 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 141 |
File size: | 311 KB |