| Freud and Oedipus UK Edition Contributor(s): Rudnytsky, Peter L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0231063539 ISBN-13: 9780231063531 Publisher: Columbia University Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Social Scientists & Psychologists |
| Dewey: B |
| Series: Psychoanalysis & Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.05" H x 5.91" W x 8.98" (1.22 lbs) 434 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |