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Oedipus and the Sphinx : the threshold myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau / Almut-Barbara Renger ; translation by Duncan Alexander Smart and David Rice, with John T. Hamilton.
Van Pelt Library BL820.O43 R46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Renger, Almut-Barbara, author.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Oedipus (Greek mythological figure).
- Oedipus.
- Sphinxes (Mythology).
- Sophocles. Oedipus Rex.
- Sophocles.
- Oedipus (Greek mythological figure)--In literature.
- Sphinxes (Mythology) in literature.
- Mythology, Greek--Appreciation.
- Mythology, Greek.
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939--Knowledge and learning--Mythology.
- Freud, Sigmund.
- Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.
- Mythology.
- Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963--Knowledge and learning--Mythology.
- Cocteau, Jean.
- Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 126 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Oedipus before the Sphinx in antiquity: on Sophocles. The Prince of Thebes and the Monster ; In the hero's account: the monstrum from Seneca to Corneille ; "Betwixt and between": the threshold theories of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner ; A "double-formed monster": the Sphinx as threshold figure in antiquity ; "Dipe est double": hero and monster in Jean-Pierre Vernant ; Coda I: one monster confronts another ; Oedipus before the Sphinx as a warning against Hubris ; Thresholds: zone, transformation, transition
- Oedipus before the Sphinx in modernity: on Freud and Cocteau. Freud the riddle solver and the "riddle of the feminine" ; Infantile and juvenile wish fulfillment: Freud as κρατιοτος ανηρ ; Perversion and Hubris: thoughts on the anecdote of Freud's "Turning Pale" ; "The night that concerns me is different": Cocteau's distancing from Freud ; Between finding and invention: "archaeology" as a shared figure of thought in Freud and Cocteau ; "No-man's-land between life and death": Cocteau's "zone" between visible and invisible worlds ; "Where dream and reality merge": mythic personalities between dream and reality ; "An Oedipus and the Sphinx": Cocteau's Machine infernale ; Deprived of characterization by basic principles: "Oedipe et le Sphinx" on the threshold ; Coda II: with Sophocles contra Freud: Cocteau's work of Enlightenment .
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-122) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226048086
- 022604808X
- OCLC:
- 825645795
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