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Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra
About this book
This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life.
Originally published in 1986.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Senecan Tragedy and the Drama of the Self
- 1. Language and the Unconscious: Towards a Rhetorical View of Character
- 2. Imagery and the Landscape of Desire
- 3. The Forest World
- 4. The Golden Age and Nature
- 5. Rivalry with the Father: Initiation and Failure
- 6. Parental Models: Ideal and Nightmare
- 7. Character Structure and Symbols of Power: Sword and Scepter
- 8. Desire, Silence, and the Speech of the Sword
- 9. Father, Underworld, and Retribution: Phaedra and Theseus
- 10. Seneca's Patricide and the Trace of Writing
- 11. Closure, Form, and the Father
- 12. Conclusion: Rhetoric and Reality
- Selected Bibliography
- Index