Achilles in Vietnam (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jonathan Shay
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Psychology
- Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology
- Subjects: History, Psychology or psychologists, Mental illness, Vietnam War, War, Depression, mental, Trojan War
Sometimes the most remarkable books come from scholars working at the intersection of two seemingly unrelated fields. Unfettered by a single methodology or disciplinary mind-set, such thinkers can make the kind of discoveries that newly illuminate the human condition and newly perceive its constants and variables. Such a book is Jonathan Shay’s Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character, a brilliant discussion of the American way of dealing with war’s losses that holds in a most provocative tension a reading of Homer’s The Iliad (c. 800 b.c.e.)...
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