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... the mother seems to be part of a questioning of the notion of coher- ent discrete subjectivity, and thus part of a heightening of enigma. Oedipus, on the other hand, has been defined before his birth (by Apollo) as he who will kill his father and marry his mother, and his actions confirm this identity...

... potential for serious political work. The essay takes Hebrew culture as its primary example. © 2015 by University of Oregon 2015 Tragedy Zionism Oedipus Antigone Ronit Matalon's Sarah Sarah Butler Works Cited Abrahams Israel . Jewish Life in the Middle Ages . 1898 . New York...

... & Littlefield, 1999 . Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus . Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1984 . Soyinka, Wole. “The Fourth Stage.” The Morality of Art: Essays Presented to G. Wilson Knight by his Colleagues and Friends . Ed. D.W. Jefferson...

.../htr/day_of_reflection/htr_0607c.pdf > Web. 12 Oct. 2015 . Clarke David R. , ed. W.B Yeats, the Writing of Sophocles' King Oedipus . American Philosophical Society , 1989 . Print . “Classical Receptions in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry in English.” Open University...

... on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), Achilles Tatius’s novel Leukippe and Kleitophon (ca. second century c e ), and Prudentius’s...

... eye squarely on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), Achilles Tatius’s novel Leukippe and Kleitophon (ca. second century c e...

... thus has her eye squarely on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus at Colonus), Achilles Tatius’s novel Leukippe and Kleitophon (ca. second...

... are implicated in the process by which violated bodies assume meaning. Ballengee thus has her eye squarely on the present. Yet the four chapters of The Wound and the Witness  engage texts drawn from Greco-Roman antiquity: the three “Theban” plays of Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, and Oedipus...

... : Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux , 1990 . Print . Lupton Julia Reinhard Reinhard Kenneth . After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1993 . Print . Milton John . Paradise Lost . 2nd ed. Ed. Elledge Scott . New York : Norton , 1993 . Print...

... and tranquil at the close,” while “in tragedy events unfold in the con- trary order” (21; my translation). But early modern commentators could not ignore two stubborn facts: that many Attic tragedies do not end in misery; and that, if it pronounces Oedipus Tyrannos better (beltion) than other tragedies...

...—the example is Rudnytsky’s (52)—what is ostensibly absent or elided is everywhere operable: psychoanalysis is no less a theory of the social for its strategic insistence on the priority of the psycho-sexual. Rudnytsky takes issue with Freud’s single-minded obsession with Oedipus, which, at least...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...

... generations, that was more or less bludgeoned to death with the history of philosophy. The history of philosophy plays a patently repressive role in philosophy, it’s philosophy’s own version of the Oedipus complex” (5). Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1972) takes...

... with Oedipus, which, at least in the case of “Little Hans,” he construes as a “defense mechanism” designed to ward off Freud’s anxi- eties about the pre-Oedipal mother and his own Jewishness (54). The obsession with Oedipus is itself, however, “always already” a theory of the social. As Foucault insists...