The Psychoanalytic Theory of Greek Tragedy |
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| Author:
| Alford, C. Fred |
| ISBN: | 978-0-300-05708-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1992 |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
Book Description:
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Alford begins with the possibility that the insights into human needs and aspirations contained in Greek tragedy might be more profound than psychoanalytic theory. He offers his own psychoanalytic interpretation of the tragedies, one that reconstructs the dramatists' views of the world.
Alford begins with the possibility that the insights into human needs and aspirations contained in Greek tragedy might be more profound than psychoanalytic theory. He offers his own psychoanalytic interpretation of the tragedies, one that reconstructs the dramatists' views of the world.