Tragedy and Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis - Couverture souple

Ray, Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3039105019 ISBN 13 : 9783039105014

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2009

Synopsis

This book presents a new account of the complex relationship between psychoanalytic theory and the key tragic dramas by Sophocles and Shakespeare in which it has often sought exemplars and prototypes. Examining the close historical and theoretical connections between Freud's interpretative appeal to tragic drama and his professed abandonment of the ‘seduction' hypothesis in 1897, the author explores the ways in which otherness has subsequently been simplified out of both psychoanalytic theory and the dramatic texts it endeavours to comprehend. Drawing on Jean Laplanche's critical reformulation of the seduction theory, the book offers close rereadings of Oedipus Tyrannus, Julius Caesar and Hamlet in order to outline an approach to tragedy which takes account of the constitutive priority of the other in the itinerary of the tragic subject. By reopening the theme of seduction in relation to these key literary dramas, the book aims to generate a better understanding both of the function which psychoanalysis has called upon tragedy to perform, and the radical modes of otherness within tragedy for which psychoanalysis has hitherto remained unable to account.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Author : Nicholas Ray is a Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3039105019
• ISBN 13: 9783039105014
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 238
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne