Freudian mythologies : Greek tragedy and modern identities / Rachel Bowlby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oedipus complex.

Electra complex.

Psychoanalysis--Greek influences.

Psychoanalysis.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

251 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780191533662

0191533661

OCLC:

476241714