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Contemporary Women's Writing 2007 1(1-2):203-205; doi:10.1093/cww/vpm019
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Freudian Mythologies: Greek Tragedy and Modern Identities. By Rachel Bowlby

Lucie Armitt

University of Salford, UK l.armitt@salford.ac.uk

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007 272 pp. £45

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Bowlby's ambitious monograph paints upon a panoramic canvas of Ancient Greek tragedy and its influence upon the shape and profile of Freud's oeuvre. Though primarily a study of Freud, Freudian Mythologies also offers a reading of Aeschylus, Aristotle, Euripides, Plato, and Sophocles for the twenty-first century and, in so doing, crosses eons and cultural divides with ease. Inevitably, in a wide-ranging book of this nature, a certain amount of simplification is required in order to carry the span of Bowlby's argument. For instance, in her interest in the extent to which English-speaking culture has suppressed the myth of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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