Freudian Mythologies - Bowlby, Rachel (Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature, University College London)

Since Freud reimagined Sophocles' Oedipus as a transhistorical Everyman, far-reaching changes have occurred in the social and sexual conditions of Western identity. This book shows how both classical and Freudian perspectives may now differently illuminate the forming stories of a present-day world.