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Freudian Mythologies - Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities (Hardcover)
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Freudian Mythologies - Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities (Hardcover)
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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 nuclear families of the mid-twentieth
century. But a century after the arrival of the psychoanalytic
Oedipus, it might seem that modern lives are very much changed.
Typical family formations and norms of sexual attachment are
changing, while the conditions of sexual difference, both
biologically and socially, have undergone far-reaching
modifications. Today, it is possible to choose and live subjective
stories that the first psychoanalytic patients could only dream of.
Different troubles and enjoyments are speakable and unspeakable;
different selves are rejected, discovered, or sought. Many kinds of
hitherto unrepresented or unrepresentable identity have entered
into the ordinary surrounding stories through which children and
adults find their bearings in the world, while others have become
obsolete. Biographical narratives that would previously have seemed
unthinkable or incredible--"a likely story!"--have acquired the
straightforward plausibility of a likely story.
This book takes two Freudian routes to think about some of the
present entanglements of identity. First, it follows Freud in
returning to Greek tragedies--Oedipus and others--which may now
appear strikingly different in the light of today's issues of
family and sexuality. And second, it re-examines Freud's own
theories from these newer perspectives, drawing out different
strands ofhis stories of how children develop and how people change
(or don't). Both kinds of mythology, the classical and the
theoretical, may now, in their difference, illuminate some of the
forming stories of our contemporary world of serial families,
multiple sexualities, and new reproductive technologies.
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