Book, Oedipus to the letter: fragments of tragedy and psychoanalysis[LS]

An original reinterpretation of Sophocles' tragedy This book emphasizes above all the curse that the hero inherits from his parents, highlighting his position as an object rather than as a subject: an Oedipus seen from the inside out, from what came before him and from what awaited him. Psychoanalyst and playwright, with several published works, Antonio Quinet offers a new contribution, in which he takes up the main lines of Freud and Lacan's thought on the Oedipus complex, explains in a didactic way lesser-known concepts (such as lalangue and the letter as a symptom) and comments on Oedipus the King, describing and analyzing the elements and terms of Greek tragedy that are of interest to psychoanalysis.