Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín

Titel

Freudian mythologies: Greek tragedy and modern identities

Ist Teil von

• Feminist Review, 2008, Vol.90 (1), p.148-150

Ort / Verlag

London: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2008

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The concluding chapter on 'Retranslations, Reproductions, Recapitulations', provides a vital theoretical backward glance over the entire volume, and is crucial to understanding the way Bowlby is rereading connections throughout her own originally separate pieces in relation to the terms of that chapter title: the close attention throughout the book to issues of translation (including 'literally' with respect to translations between Greek, Latin, German, and English) and recapitulation (including 'literally' her own extensive re-tellings in turn of classical myths) are at the same time impressive performances of the theoretical implications of Bowlby's concerns. While noting, for instance, that despite social change in the status of women '[s]ince Freud's lifetime' (p. 167) '[b]oth sexes, ... are [still] subject to the limitations as well as the opportunities of their place in the "cultural community"' (p. 167), Bowlby still concludes that 'it seems anachronistic and needlessly hopeless now to cling to a myth in which women's most fundamental conflicts are determined by the realization that they are women, not men' (pp. 167-8).