A different Oedipus. Anamorphic meaning of Sophocles’ tragedy and a critique to Freud’s interpretation

Journal title PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE
Author/s Franco Maiullari
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/2 Language Italian
Pages 28 P. 199-226 File size 618 KB
DOI 10.3280/PU2011-002004
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This essay discusses some questions that are still topical, have grown up all together with the psychoanalytic movement, and concern the basis itself of psychodynamic models. They are, above all, the difference between instinctual mind and relational theory, and the difference between the world of tenderness (affects) and the world of passions. An original contribution of this paper concerns the sophoclean tragedy Oedipus the King and its destiny all along the history of psychoanalysis. The Author, basing his conjectures on a textual analysis of this drama, shows that the Freudian interpretation is related to its traditional, superficial version, and consequently fails both its philological and psychological aims.

Keywords: Oedipus, anamorphosis, <i>Oedipus the King</i>, Freud, Adler

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Franco Maiullari, Un altro Edipo. Lettura anamorfica della tragedia di Sofocle e critica dell'interpretazione freudiana in "PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE" 2/2011, pp 199-226, DOI: 10.3280/PU2011-002004