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Reddit mentions of Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
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Height | 8.4375 Inches |
Length | 5.5 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | November 2003 |
Weight | 0.74 Pounds |
Width | 0.88 Inches |
It depends on what you're drawn to. Are you more interested in interpretation of story for your own personal growth? Or interpretation of films? Or are you looking to create stories?
The best books I know on this subject at least on interpretive myth include:
In my experience, after Campbell people usually begin to drift toward what their personal myths are. So you have some people who get really into film and get caught on Vogler or Bonnet's work, others who want to go help returning veterans and end up getting really into Odysseus in America. Or people begin focusing on different cultures and religions and move from there.
Jonathan Shay has written two really excellent books on the topic, focusing specifically on how the depictions of the characters of the Iliad and Odyssey portray a then-unrealised form of PTSD: Achilles and Vietnam, and particularly Odysseus in America. I'd recommend them highly - both are very well written, and accessible even if you aren't a student of psychology/Classics.
Depending on when you went to college, the guy might've stolen the idea a bit because Jonathan Shay wrote a pair of books published in the mid-90s to early-00s titled Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America which are academic works about the Iliad and the Odyssey using them as a lens to understand psychological illnesses in veterans who saw combat.
I'll just leave this here: Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character; Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming.
I really enjoyed Odysseus in America. It's mostly about Vietnam Vets but a lot of it is pretty general.
That's the book!
Awesome, kind stranger. I appreciate it more than I can say.
Amazon shows another by Shay :
Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming
So I looks as though my ever expanding pile of book to read will grow again.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/074321157X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_-0WDxbWZ3JXSH
Redeployment - Phil Klay
Odysseus in America - Jonathan Shay
According to psychiatrist Jonathan Shay, very much so. He is noted for the following books comparing Homeric myths with PTSD:
Achilles in Vietnam
Odysseus in America