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1. Oedipus and the Sphinx

   the threshold myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau
   Author: Renger, Almut-Barbara

   Published: 2013

   Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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   Source:	Union catalogues
   Language:	English
   Media type:	Ebook
   Format:	Online
   ISBN:	1299784666; 9781299784666; 9780226048116
   Subjects:	Sphinxes (Mythology); Sphinxes (Mythology) in literature; Mythology, Greek
   Other subjects:	Cocteau, Jean (1889-1963); Oedipus (Greek mythological figure); Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939); Oedipus (Greek mythological figure); Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
   Scope:	Online-Ressource (vi, 126 pages), illustrations
   Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-122) and index ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One - Oedipus before the Sphinx in Antiquity: On Sophocles""; ""1. The Prince of Thebes and the Monster""; ""“With intelligence, not taught by birdsâ€?""; ""Face- to-Face: Oedipus before the Sphinx in the Vase Painting of Antiquity""; ""In the Heroâ€?s Account: The monstrum from Seneca to Corneille""; ""2. Thresholds: Zone, Transformation, Transition""; ""“Betwixt and Betweenâ€?: The Threshold Theories of Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner"" ""A “Double- Formed Monsterâ€? (Î?ίÎ?οÏ?Ï?οÎ? Î?ηÏ?ίοÎ?): The Sphinx as Threshold Figure in Antiquity""""“Å?dipe est doubleâ€?: Hero and Monster in Jean- Pierre Vernant""; ""Coda I: One Monster Confronts Another: Oedipus before the Sphinx as a Warning against Hubris""; ""Part Two - Oedipus before the Sphinx in Modernity: On Freud and Cocteau""; ""3. Freud the Riddle Solver and the “Riddle of the Feminineâ€?""; ""Infantile and Juvenile Wish Fulfillment: Freud as κÏ?á?±Ï?ιÏ?Ï?οÏ? Î?á?µÏ?""; ""Perversion and Hubris: Thoughts on the Anecdote of Freudâ€?s “Turning Paleâ€?"" ""4. “The night that concerns me is differentâ€?: Cocteauâ€?s Distancing from Freud""""Between Finding and Invention: “Archaeologyâ€? as a Shared Figure of Thought in Freud and Cocteau""; ""“No-manâ€?s-land between life and deathâ€?: Cocteauâ€?s “Zoneâ€?between Visible and Invisible Worlds""; ""“Where dream and reality mergeâ€?: Mythic Personalities between Dream and Reality""; ""“An Oedipus and the Sphinxâ€?: Cocteauâ€?s Machine infernale""; ""Deprived of Characterization by Basic Principles:“Å?dipe et le Sphinxâ€? on the Threshold"" ""Coda II: With Sophocles contra Freud: Cocteauâ€?s Work of Enlightenment""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""