Freud and Oedipus (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231063531)

Freud and Oedipus reassesses Freud's central concept of the Oedipus complex from the interlocking perceptives of biography, intellectual history, and Greek tragedy. Drawing on a wealth of primary and secondary materials, Peter Rudnytsky establishes how Freud reached his epochal formulation through his own self-analysis and clinical work. He then places Freud's discoveries in the context of nineteenth-century German intellectual and literary history. Finally, he demonstrates how many of Freud's insights are foreshadowed in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and discusses the psychoanalytic and structuralist interpretation of Sophocles' Oedipus cycle as a whole.

Author: Peter L. Rudnytsky
ISBN-10: 0231063539
ISBN-13: 9780231063531
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1992
Pages: 434
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.91w x 1.05d