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A study of Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus
… and purpose of this thesis to study the Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles. Since there is a real need for an investigation of the Coloneus as a work of art and not as a philosophical treatise or a theological tract, the limitations of my study are strictly defined. I shall direct my attention …
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The Oedipus Tyrannus Theme in Western Literature
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Oedipus Rex: metaphysics and the fundamental human struggle
… by a metaphysical analysis of the drama <em>Oedipus Rex</em>. Drama presents a mimesis of human action and dramatic plots are comprised of these physical actions. This fundamental dramatic action consists of the embodied action of the human being (i.e., substance), comprised of body and soul …
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Masculinity in a Colonial Culture – The Oedipus Complex in Taiwan
… the colonized. I interpret it in terms of the Oedipus complex, which can be discerned in Taiwanese history and cultural products. I have chosen Taiwan as my object of study, partly because I know it subjectively, as a Taiwanese, as well as objectively, through my research; but also because it …
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Thomas Magistros' Recension of the Sophoclean Plays 'Oedipus Coloneus,' 'Trachinae,' 'Philoctetes'
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Anti-Oedipus en-procés : a comparative analysis of Kristeva and Deleuze & Guattari
The present thesis is an attempt to bring into dialogue what appear to be two radically different approaches of negotiating subjectivity in late Western Modernity. Here the thought of Julia Kristeva as well as Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari are fully engaged. These thinkers, the latter two being …
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Oedipus' Wake: The (Neo-)Masculinization of the Self in Late Twentieth-Century American Women's Memoir
<p>Without pretensions to exhaustiveness, this study briefly examines the mid- to late-twentieth-century flowering of western theory and criticism built around autobiographical writing and follows the feminist branch(es) of that theory and criticism through a reading of the following four memoirs: …
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Vision and desire: Jim Morrison's mythography beyond the death of God
… culture. Through the use of the Greek myth of Oedipus in its entirety, as opposed to the two most universally known events of the adult Oedipus' life, discussion here will attempt to demonstrate that Morrison developed a cohesive, holistic vision of the human condition of existence in the …
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A documentation and critical reflection of my original script, “With New Eyes”, from original concept to its submitted form
"With New Eyes" is a reexamination of the Oedipus myth and its core themes, placing it in different historical, geographical and theatrical locations.
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Carrefours théorico - cliniques
… as first psychical activity, sublimation, Oedipus- and Castrationscomplexes, Instances of the Personnality, Projection and projective Identification.
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Psychoanalysis and male homosexuality
… analysts, who interpreted Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex in a very particular way to make it fit for their purpose. According to these analysts homosexuality, in their view, is an illness in need of a cure. Their aim is to convert homosexuality into heterosexuality by conducting analysis …
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An Epic of Tragic Proportions: [In]forming the Politics of Statius’ Thebaid through Greek Tragic Intertext
… Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone, and Euripides’ Phoenissae and Suppliant Women. I identify various passages throughout the epic that parallel scenes from these tragedies, not only through their more overt similarities to …
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The effects of blindness on tactile and auditory perception in rats
… appeared in mythology in early Greek literature. Oedipus Rex was attributed greater awareness of people’s nature after this blindness. It is still a prevalent myth in contemporary American culture, to the extent that it appears in “Little Orphan Annie.” Experimental attempts at verification of …
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Wij zitten in een klem' : argetipiese verhoudingspatrone in 'De verwondering' van Hudo Claus
… Golden Bough and Freud’s reading of the myth of Oedipus to cast the characters in what could be viewed as archetypal patterns of inter-subject relations. This novel is interpreted by identifying the archetypal patterns which form the depth structure of inter-subject relations in the novel, and …
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Time the avenger: two plays and a critical thesis. How does a dramatist’s use of stage time affect the audience’s understanding of the story being told? A critical examination of temporal framing in the work of four playwrights
… for both of my plays, a close reading of Oedipus Rex and The Weir persuaded me that a real-time structure need not necessarily limit the approach to naturalism –– but can also allow for a kind of heightened expressionistic realism –– something I exploit in The Hotel Play. Subsequently, two …
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Tres lecturas de las novelas de Mario Vargas Llosa : interpretación psicoanalítica de la producción novelesca de un autor
… to what extent these novels reproduces the Oedipus complex understood as a conflict between father and son, normally attributed to Freud. According to this reading it seems as if the author have been using the so called Freudian conception of the Oedipus complex as a literary technique, and …
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Modern Western discourse on the subject
… this fictitious feature is constituted by the Oedipus story and how it works. This thesis will show that the modern Western politics was based on this fictitious subject, exemplified by Hegelian subject, Freud's ego and masculine subject, and Lacan's moi and speaking subject, and it will …
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