Tragedy and Otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, Psychoanalysis (Paperback)

Contents: The evolution of Freudian metapsychology and its relation to tragic drama ? Parricide and subjectivity in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy ? Concepts and stagings of trauma and transgenerational haunting ? Alterity in the context of classical Greek and early-modern European culture ? Dramatic and psychoanalytic configurations of mourning, repetition and identification ? Jean Laplanche and the movement from a restricted to a general theory of seduction ? Tragedies: Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet.