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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807109203321

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

9780191533662

0191533661

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

251 p

Disciplina

150.19/52

Soggetti

Oedipus complex

Electra complex

Psychoanalysis - Greek influences

Greek drama (Tragedy) - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

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.