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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 16 October 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9798765131145
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 214x140x24 mm
- Weight 401 g
- Language English 700
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Short description:
With a keen eye on the myths of Oedipus and the Fall, Rudyntsky offers original readings of canonical works in the Western tradition, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Othello, and Paradise Lost.
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A work of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism that offers original readings of early canonical works of the Western tradition.
In cogently argued and brilliant readings of texts ranging from St. Augustine's Confessions to Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes, Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition shows the ongoing cultural value of psychoanalytic approaches-flexibly and critically applied-to the interpretation of major literary works. Peter L. Rudnytsky makes a persuasive and striking case for tracing significant connections between the Judeo-Christian story of the Fall and the Greek myth of Oedipus: Proposing that the Oedipus complex can be viewed as the ""latent content"" of the Fall, Rudnytsky at once respects the explanatory power of these master-myths while he interrogates their claims to universality.
Drawing above all on Freud, Klein, Winnicott, and Lacan, Rudnytsky integrates a range of psychoanalytic perspectives with deconstruction, new historicism, and psychobiography to highlight issues of gender and sexuality not only in Augustine and Milton but also in Gottfried's Tristan, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, More's History of King Richard III, Shakespeare's Othello and King Lear, as well the poetry of Marvell and other 17th-century writers who exhibit the ""dissociation of sensibility"" Rudnytsky links to the execution of King Charles I.
Through synthesis of psychoanalysis, feminism, and literary criticism, Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition sheds new light on old masterpieces even as it reveals the contours of an entire tradition.
Table of Contents:
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1. Augustine's Family Romance
2. Incest and the Fall in Gottfried's Tristan
3. ""Where th'Offense Is"": Oedipal Temptation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
4. More's History of King Richard III as an Uncanny Text
5. The Purloined Handkerchief in Othello
6. ""The Dark and Vicious Place"": The Dread of the Vagina in King Lear
7. Dissociation and Decapitation
8. ""Here Only Weak"": Sexuality and the Structure of Trauma in Paradise Lost
9. Milton, Marriage, and Blindness
10. ""What Once I Was, and What Am Now"": Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes
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