Sotiris Manolopoulos

Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy (eBook, ePUB)

Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing parallels between ancient theatre, the analytic setting and the workings of psychic life, this book examines the tragedies of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus through a psychoanalytic lens, with a view of furthering the reader's understanding of primitive mental states.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040119389
• Artikelnr.: 72274247

Autorenporträt

Sotiris Manolopoulos is a child analyst and training analyst based in Athens, Greece. He was trained in the Canadian Psychoanalytic Society and is a member of the Hellenic Psychoanalytic Society, where he was previously president and director of training.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 The dramatic point of view
Chapter 2 Euripides' Hippolytus: drives unleashed
Chapter 3 Euripides' Medea: the barbaric reality
Chapter 4 Euripides' Orestes: the contamination of the city
Chapter 5 Euripides' suppliant women: mourning and femininity
Chapter 6 Euripides' Alcestis: narcissim and anti-narcissim
Chapter 7 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris: bringing the stranger back home
Chapter 8 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis: triumph in sacrifice
Chapter 9 Sophocles' Philoctetes: from somatic pain to trading
Chapter 10 Sophocles' Antigone: the tragic staging of the political
Chapter 11 Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: from pain to suffering and thinking
Chapter 12 A plea for a new political subject

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Introduction

Chapter 1 The dramatic point of view

Chapter 2 Euripides' Hippolytus: drives unleashed

Chapter 3 Euripides' Medea: the barbaric reality

Chapter 4 Euripides' Orestes: the contamination of the city

Chapter 5 Euripides' suppliant women: mourning and femininity

Chapter 6 Euripides' Alcestis: narcissim and anti-narcissim

Chapter 7 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris: bringing the stranger back home

Chapter 8 Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis: triumph in sacrifice

Chapter 9 Sophocles' Philoctetes: from somatic pain to trading

Chapter 10 Sophocles' Antigone: the tragic staging of the political

Chapter 11 Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound: from pain to suffering and thinking

Chapter 12 A plea for a new political subject

Rezensionen

Sotiris Manolopoulos' work wells from a profound psychoanalytic understanding of the child's interaction with the early maternal environment containing a tragic dimension from the very beginning. Without the mother's silent work of mourning, it would possibly result in destructive consequences both at the individual and social level. The author's linking this constellation to the ancient Greek tragedy in a creative way is a major achievement.

Simon Salonen, M.D., Ph.D., Emeritus Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry, University of Turku, Member of Finnish Psychoanalytical Society. Author of "Metapsychological Perspectives on Psychic Survival".

Deeply familiar with Greek mythology, and well versed in philosophy and psychoanalysis, Sotiris Manolopoulos throws a wide net to capture and bring together the individual, the clinical, the social and the political in their intricate connectedness. His thoughtful exploration of tragic theatre illuminates psychic life between passion and order, despair and resolution. A greatly enriching journey through the lands of ancient drama from the vantage point of contemporary psychoanalysis.

Cordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Ph.D., Chair of the IPA in Culture Committee

In this book Sotiris Manolopoulos takes the reader on a psychoanalytic Odyssey to explore some of the key Greek tragedies. Through a psychoanalytic lens familiar Greek characters are analysed to highlight the depths of the human psyche. It is an impressive endeavour that offers a compelling integration of both theatre and psychoanalysis.

Jan Abram, Author of The Surviving Object: psychoanalytic clinical essays on psychic survival of-the-object (2022) New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge

Sotiris Manolopoulos unpicks with mastery the thread of the souls of the heroes from Ancient tragedy, analysing their words and actions in the light of modern psychoanalysis and his clinical experience, displaying through the function of the chorus the connection between the collective and the individual at the point where the personal psyche, in order to be woven, consistently relies on the social and the sequence of passages through the Other, and the others, to the sufferer and the living subject.

Thanassis Hatzopoulos is a child psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (member of the Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne, Paris, of the International Winnicott Association, Sao Paolo, and president of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Space D. W. W, Athens) and a poet.