Oedipus: Myth and Complex; a Review of Psychoanalytic Theory (1st Ed.)

Oedipus: Myth and Complex; a Review of Psychoanalytic Theory (1st Ed.)Very Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - First Edition - Ready to ShipBy -- Patrick MullahyPublished by -- Hermitage Press Inc., 1948, New York, xii 538 Pages, First Edition, Hardcover, 8.5" X 6" X 1.5", 1 lb 13 oz.[INTRODUCTION - ERICH FROMM]"In this volume Patrick Mullahy approaches the familiar problem of the Oedipus complex in an unfamiliar way. For the first time, Sophocles' Oedipus trilogy is published together with the various psychoanalytic interpretations of the Oedipus myth in one volume. That such an approach is new may seem surprising, since a thorough knowledge of the myth should be the premise for all interpretations.(...)In the last century knowledge of Greek mythology was essential to being an educated person. (...) With an increasing tendency not to bother with things which were not "practical," the Greek myth was [subsequently] relegated to a marginal area of superfluous and useless information. (...) Freud, in studying the relationship of the child to his parents and observing intense attachment to the parents of the opposite sex and antagonism against the parent of the same sex, believed he had found the explanation for this puzzling phenomenon in the secret incestuous wishes of the child. The myth of the Greek hero who killed his father and married his mother without any awareness that he had committed patricide and was living in an incestuous relationship seemed to prove Freud's thesis that incestuous strivings are found in every child in a veiled and distorted manner ; in such a way the secret code of the myth could be deciphered by a psychologist."#Vintage #Oedipus #booksforsale #Scarce #OedipusTrilogy #instaread #Bookworm #instaread #Bookworm #instabooks #Psychoanalysis #PatrickMullahy #CoverArt #Antiquarian #Books #CuttleboneBooks #FirstEdition #booksale #SigmundFreud #ErichFromm #bibliophile #readersofinstagram #Sophocles #Bookstagram #bookcollecting #Antiquarian #Books #collectiblebooks #OedipusComplex #BooksBooksBooks