Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Classical Myth and Psychoanalysis
Vanda Zajko · 2013
71/100
👍 Worth It
Oxford University Press published this 18-essay collection from a major Bristol conference, and it shows — the scholarship is rigorous, the editorial credentials are strong, and reviewers in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review and The Classical Review took it seriously. The heavy Lacanian emphasis does crowd out Freud and Klein in ways that skew the picture of the broader field, but for graduate students or scholars bridging classics and psychoanalysis, this delivers genuine intellectual substance. General readers will find it inaccessible.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: academic mature content · myth themes discussed analytically. We still scored it 71; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness71
Craft & writing75
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers76
Age-fit78
👁 Human-eye gut-check78
Penny’s verdict71
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