Freud and Oedipus / Peter L. Rudnytsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudnytsky, Peter L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oedipus (Greek mythological figure).

Oedipus.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Oedipus complex.

Psychoanalysis--History.

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysts--Austria--Biography.

Psychoanalysts.

Sophocles.

Tragedy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Adds to the history of psychoanalysis, and the ongoing dialogue that Freud's life and work have generated by reexamining his self-analysis in the final years of the 19th century and the discovery of the Oedipus complex.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I: Biography

1. The Hero's Garb

2. The Transference Neurosis

3. In My Own Case Too

Part II: Intellectual History

4. Sophocles Unbound

5. Three Romantic Case Studies

6. Hegel

7. Between Hegel and Nietzsche

8. Nietzsche

9. After Freud

Part III: Greek Tragedy

10. Through Freud to Sophocles

11. Incest and Burial

12. Binary Oppositions and the "Unit of Kinship"

13. The Heroization of Oedipus

Conclusion: Life in the Myth

Appendix: Oedipus and Anti-Oedipus

Notes

Bibliography of Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780231882729

0231882726

OCLC:

1100433603