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Oedipus, the Untold Story : A Ghostly Mythodrama in One Act

Rosa, Armando NascimentoRowland, Susan(Foreword by)Carlson, Marvin A.(Contributions by)Downing, Christine(Contributions by)
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Where Freud made incest the defining feature of the Oedipus complex, Rosa, inspired by C.

G. Jung, looks beyond the complex to its archetypal roots.

Probing deeper into the tragic hero's family history, Rosa finds the source of the doomed man's fate in the now-forgotten crime of his father, Laius - namely, Laius's abduction and attempted seduction of Pelops's beautiful young son, Chrysippus, long before Oedipus was born.

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Product Details
Spring Journal
1882670388 / 9781882670383
Paperback / softback
10/04/2006
United States
103 pages, illus
230 x 155 mm, 224 grams
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