UNDERSTANDING HUMAN LIFE THROUGH P - Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a view of furthering the reader's understanding of primitive mental states.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1 The dramatic point of view
Chapter 2 Euripides' Hippolytus: drives unleashed
Chapter 3 Euripides' Medea: the barbaric reality
Chapter 4 Euripides' Orestes: the contamination of the city
Chapter 5 Euripides' suppliant women: mourning and femininity
Chapter 6 Euripides' Alcestis: narcissim and anti-narcissim
Chapter 7 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris: bringing the stranger back home
Chapter 8 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis: triumph in sacrifice
Chapter 9 Sophocles' Philoctetes: from somatic pain to trading
Chapter 10 Sophocles' Antigone: the tragic staging of the political
Chapter 11 Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: from pain to suffering and thinking
Chapter 12 A plea for a new political subject

About the author

Sotiris Manolopoulos is a child analyst and training analyst based in Athens, Greece. He was trained in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and is a member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, where he was previously president and director of training.

Summary

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a view of furthering the reader’s understanding of primitive mental states.

Product details

• Authors: Sotiris Manolopoulos
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032712857
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3271285-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Psychotherapy, Theatre Studies, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Performance Art, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Literary studies: plays and playwrights, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis