Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities

by Rachel Bowlby

Book Overview

More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfillment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex--child, mother, father--suited the nuclear families of the mid-twentieth century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoanalytic Oedipus,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199270392
• ISBN13: 9780199270392
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 8.7"