The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

by William Kerrigan

Book Overview

This reading of Milton juxtaposes the poet's theology and Freud's account of the Oedipus complex in ways that yield both new understanding of Milton and a model for psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. The book ranges widely through the art and life of Milton, including extensive discussions of his theological irregularities and the significance, medical and symbolic, he assigned to his blindness. Kerrigan analyzes the oedipal aspect of Milton's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674785002
• ISBN13: 9780674785007
• Release Date: December 1983
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"