Review of Nicholas Ray's tragedy and otherness: Sophocles, Shakespeare, psychoanalysis

García Landa, José Angel (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: Tragedy and psychoanalysis have always been at work within each other —with major tragedies explicitly inspiring Freud’s work, and with psychoanalysis waiting to unravel the conflict between next of kin in the works of classical tragedians like Sophocles or Shakespeare. Nicholas Ray writes from within the field of psychoanalytic criticism— a little askew, though, as the approach he favors is broadly that of Jean Laplanche, and he casts a critical gaze on the Freudian concepts and on Freud’s account of the self. The Oedipus, notably, is here an object of interrogation, rather than a psychical process which is taken for granted. Ray stresses the complexity of the process by which self relates to other in both tragedies and psychoanalysis, a complexity which may be foreclosed by Freud’s own formulations. Or perhaps by an overly strict adherence to them.

Idioma: Inglés

Año: 2011

Publicado en: Miscelánea (Zaragoza) 44 (2011), 167-173
ISSN: 1137-6368

Tipo y forma: (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Filología Inglesa (Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema.)