Psychoanalysis and the Patriarchal Tradition

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.

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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