Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by Girard, René
Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by Girard, René

Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire

Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat,...
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Author: René Girard
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Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by Girard, René

Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire

$77.66
Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by Girard, René

Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire

$77.66
Author: René Girard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Ren? Girard, the mythic accusations of patricide and incest are symptomatic of a plague-stricken community's hunt for a culprit to punish, and Girard succeeds in making us see an age-old myth in a wholly new light.

The hard-to-find writings assembled here include three major early essays, never before available in English, which afford a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the emergence of Girard's scapegoat theory from his pioneering analysis of rivalry and desire. Girard unbinds the Oedipal triangle from its Freudian moorings, replacing desire for the mother with desire for anyone--or anything--a rival desires. In a wide-ranging and provocative introduction, Mark R. Anspach presents fresh evidence for Girard's hypotheses from classical studies, literature, anthropology, and the life of Freud himself.



Author: René Girard
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 02/04/2004
Pages: 131
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 9.12h x 6.08w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9780804747806

About the Author
Ren? Girard is Professor Emeritus of French at Stanford University. He is the author of many books, including Violence and the Sacred (1977), The Scapegoat (1986), Job: The Victim of His People (Stanford, 1987), Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Stanford, 1987), and I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (2001).
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