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- 231: Hamlets Madness
- ... for revenge. An honest man would not have done so. Hamlet has violent outbursts towards his mother. His outburst seems to be out of jealousy, as a victim to the Oedipus complex. He alone sees his father's ghost in his mother's chambers. Every other time the ghost appeared someone else has seen it. During this scene he finally shows ... for revenge. An honest man would not have done so. Hamlet has violent outbursts towards his mother. His outburst seems to be out of jealousy, as a victim to the Oedipus complex. He alone sees his father's ghost in his mother's chambers. Every other time the ghost appeared someone else has seen it. During this scene he finally shows ...
- 232: Sigmund Freud
- ... next stage is the phallic stage. In this stage the boy craves attention from his mother! , but fears his father will punish him by castration. This is known as the Oedipus complex. The female phallic stage is known as the Electra complex where she discovers the absence of a penis and develops penis envy. The fourth stage is the latency stage ... The politics of hysteria. Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press, 1986. Ricoeur, P. Freud and philosophy (D. Savage, Trans.) New York: Yale University Press, 1970. Rudnytsky, P.L. Freud and Oedipus. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987. Schur, M. Freud: Living and dying. New York: International Universities Press, 1972. Sulloway, F.J. Freud, biologist of the mind: Beyond the psychological legend ...
- 233: The Role of Fate in Antigone
- ... word spoken by a character. Sophocles’ Antigone is not different, fate controls Antigone’s life in various ways including her lineage. Antigone is the product of an incestuous relationship between Oedipus and Jocasta, her cursed family history suggests that she too is subject to the curse. The acts of Oedipus are contrary to the gods and the deities must reconcile all products of his deeds. Thus, Antigone is doomed from the moment she is born, her acts of civil disobedience ...
- 234: Sigmund Freud
- ... consider a rival. Boys feel unrecognized guilt for their rivalry and a fear that their father will punish them, such as by castration. This collection of feelings he named the "Oedipus complex' after the Greek legend of Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Originally Freud hypothesized that females experienced a parallel "Electra complex." However, in time Freud changed his mind, saying, (1931, p.229 ...
- 235: Hamlet: Emotional States
- ... insanity, but that insanity only lasted for brief periods of time because of the emotional blows that Hamlet undergoes. I and many literary folk believe that Hamlet suffered from a Oedipus complex. Freud described this as a desire for a young boy to kill his father and become sexually involved with his mother. Now that Hamlet's father is eliminated, he ... Hamlet's actions in the "closet scene" it is first apparent that he is making some sort of sexual advance towards his mother the Queen. This is where Hamlet's Oedipus complex really bears itself completely, we know exactly what Hamlet wants, but like in the rest of the play his words seem haphazard and spurned on by disillusionment (Lidz, 130 ...
- 236: Universal Neurosis
- ... complex and religious illusion, the ideas of the tripartite human psyche and wishfullfillment the Freud developed came under fire from critics for their controversial messages and analysis. Briefly stated, the Oedipus complex is the preservation in the adult individual of the perceptions, strategies and scars of a conflict the individual underwent during his or her preschool years. According to Freud, these ... finally, in the later work, reports given through free-associations) as revealing a universal Oedipal drama. Freud found what he took to be evidence for the universal existence of the Oedipus in the testimony of patients, in his analysis of the repressed in dreams, in slips, wit, and the transference phenomenon, as well as in art, philosophy, and religion. The child ...
- 237: Stranger On A Train
- ... because they never had planned it. The protagonist's identity is threatened because he's accused of a crime which he never committed. We could also see the presence of oedipus complex: Bruno's hatred towards his father since his childhood. According to me, the model of "the classic cinema" is respected in the movie Strangers On a Train. The movie ... because they never had planned it. The protagonist's identity is threatened because he's accused of a crime which he never committed. We could also see the presence of oedipus complex: Bruno's hatred towards his father since his childhood. The object of the protagonist's and the camera's look was usually women. When Bruno was committing the murder ...
- 238: Antigone - A Contrast Of Two T
- ... Antigone's opening line sound more dramatic. While Townsend opens his version with the simplistic, modern sentence structure of "My darling sister Ismene, we have had a fine inheritance from Oedipus" (Townsend, 3), Kitto has the heroine say "Ismene, my own sister, dear Ismene, How many miseries our father caused!" (Kitto, 9). This rough, unfamiliar sentence structure makes it seem to ... more foreign, and therefore more authentic as an ancient Greek play. Many examples of this occur throughout the play. One such example occurs when Ismene is recollecting the story of Oedipus, her father, in an attempt to show Antigone how foolish her idea of bestowing on Polynices a proper burial is. In Kitto's version of the play, Ismene's line ...
- 239: Creon As The Tragic Hero In An
- ... powerful king, but his development through the plot forces him to become nothing more than a fool. I believe that Creon’s noble quality is linked to his role in Oedipus the King. Oedipus, after blinding himself, asks Creon to take care of his children. He, of course, agrees to. This is, without a doubt, a noble quality. Creon’s involvement in the plot ...
- 240: Penelope As Moral Agent
- ... be construed as being in opposition to her findings. Since I am not familiar with and have not read any of the outside texts to which Foley refers (Aristotle's Oedipus Tyrannos, Poetics, Politics, and Ethics, the Hippocratic medical texts, and the feminist theory of Carol Gilligan), I can only assume that her interpretations of these texts are correct. In any ... in the same sentence is when she says, "A closer look at Aristotle's assumptions about women as moral agents, however, makes clear that one cannot generalize so easily from Oedipus to Penelope" (Foley 93). Additionally, on page 99, she resists using the term kurios or guardianship (one she used to determine Classical Athenian opinion about women's roles in decision ...
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