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Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
Freudian Mythologies Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities
Author: Rachel Bowlby
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 the fulfillment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex - child, mother, father - suited the n...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199566228
ISBN-10: 0199566224
Publication Date: 8/17/2009
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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