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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452143103321

Autore

Bowlby Rachel <1957->

Titolo

Freudian mythologies [[electronic resource] ] : Greek tragedy and modern identities / / Rachel Bowlby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-16442-9

9786611164423

0-19-153366-1

1-4294-9293-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Disciplina

150.19/52

Soggetti

Oedipus complex

Electra complex

Psychoanalysis - Greek influences

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations, Texts, and Translations; Introduction; 1. Freud's Classical Mythologies; 2. Never Done, Never to Return: Hysteria and After; 3. Fifty-Fifty: Female Subjectivity and the Danaids; 4. The Other Day: The Interpretation of Daydreams; 5. A Freudian Curiosity; 6. The Cronus Complex: Psychoanalytic Myths of the Future for Boys and Girls; 7. Oedipal Origins; 8. Playing God: Reproductive Realism in Euripides' Ion; 9. Retranslations, Reproductions, Recapitulations; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Since Freud reimagined Sophocles' Oedipus as a transhistorical Everyman, far-reaching changes have occurred in the social and sexual conditions of Western identity. This book shows how both classical and Freudian perspectives may now differently illuminate the forming stories of a present-day world of serial families, multiple sexualities, and reproductive technologies. - ;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 t