Tragedy and Otherness; Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis

by Nicholas Ray

This book presents a new account of the complex relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the key tragic dramas by Sophocles and Shakespeare in which it has often sought exemplars and prototypes. Examining the close historical and theoretical connections between Freud's interpretative appeal to tragic drama and his professed abandonment of the 'seduction' hypothesis in 1897, the author explores the ways in which otherness has subsequently been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3039105019
• ISBN13: 9783039105014
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Peter Lang UK
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"