Electra after Freud : myth and culture

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Label

Electra after Freud : myth and culture

Title remainder

myth and culture

Statement of responsibility

Jill Scott

Creator

• Scott, Jill, 1968-

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Deutsch
• Electra, (Greek mythological figure)
• Electra, (Greek mythological figure) -- In literature
• Electronic books
• Elektra
• Elektra (grekisk mytologi) i litteraturen
• German literature
• German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• Kvinnobilden
• Literatur
• Literature
• Litteraturvetenskap -- 1800-talet | 1900-talet
• Musikvetenskap
• Myter
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements | Psychoanalysis
• Psychoanalyse
• Psychoanalysis in literature
• Psychoanalysis in literature
• Psykoanalys
• Psykoanalys och litteratur
• Tysk litteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet
• Tysk litteratur -- historia -- 1900-talet
• 1800-1999

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

• "Almost everyone knows about Oedipus and his mother, and many readers would put the Oedipus myth at the forefront of Western collective mythology. In Electra after Freud, Jill Scott leaves that couple behind and argues convincingly for the primacy of the countermyth of Agamemnon and his daughter. Through a lens of Freudian and feminist psychoanalysis, this book views renderings of the Electra myth in twentieth-century literature and culture."
• "Scott reads several pivotal texts featuring Electra to demonstrate what she calls "a narrative revolt" against the dominance of Oedipus as archetype. Situating the Electra myth within a framework of psychoanalysis, medicine, opera, and dance. Scott investigates the heroine's role at the intersections of history and the feminine, eros and thanatos, hysteria and melancholia. Scott analyzes Electra adaptations by H.D., Hofmannsthal and Strauss, Musil, and Plath and highlights key moments in the telling and reception of the Electra myth in the modern imagination"--Jacket

Member of

• Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry

Cataloging source

JSTOR

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry