{"product_id":"9780801893346","title":"Euripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging","description":"\u003cp\u003eFreud's interpretation of the ancient legend of Oedipus—as formulated in Sophocles' tragic drama—is among the most widely known concepts of psychoanalysis. Euripides' \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e, however, presents a more complex version of the development of personal identity. Here, the discovery of family origins is a process in which parent and child both take part as distinct agents driven by their own impulses of violence and desire.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEuripides, Freud, and the Romance of Belonging studies the construction of identity and the origins of the primal trauma in two texts, the \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e and Freud’s case history of the Wolf Man. Victoria Pedrick challenges the conventional psychoanalytic theory of the development of the individual within the family, presenting instead a richer and more complex economy of exchange between the parent and the child. She provides a new perspective on Freud's appropriation of ancient texts and moves beyond the familiar reunion in Oedipus to the more nuanced scene of abandonment present in \u003ci\u003eIon\u003c\/i\u003e. Her parallel investigation of these texts suggests that contemporary culture remains preoccupied by the problems of the past in the determination of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePedrick's fresh perspectives on both texts as well as on their relationship to each other shed new light on two foundational moments in the intellectual development of the West: Greek tragedy and Freudian psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123101614320,"sku":"9780801893346","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780801893346_p0.jpg?v=1769906609","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780801893346","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}