In this stimulating and wide-ranging 1979 study, Andre Green, the
eminent French psychoanalyst, demonstrates the relevance of
psychoanalysis to literary criticism. He interprets the Freudian
theory of the Oedipus complex - in its 'negative' aspect of male
hostility towards the female - in several of the great European
tragedies, including Aeschlyus' Oresteia (where the son kills the
mother), Shakespeare's Othello (where the husband kills the wife)
and Racine's Iphigegenie a Aulis (where the father kills the
daughter), as well as Sophocles' Oedipodeia. Green sheds light on
such important literary and psychoanalytic questions as the stage's
kinship with phantasy, glorified in Artaud's theatre; those devices
through which the spectator's unconscious may be affected; the
family's privileged position at the centre of the 'tragic space';
the points at which modern structuralist thought fails; and the
different perspectives exploring the Oedipus myth and Freud's
interpretation of it. This will interest psychologists,
anthropologists, and readers of literary debate.
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