Oedipus Rex in René Girard’s Violence and the Sacred
Sigmund Freud’s concept of the Oedipus complex has entered popular consciousness. It names the tendency of boys to become romantically infatuated with their mothers, and girls with…
Sigmund Freud’s concept of the Oedipus complex has entered popular consciousness. It names the tendency of boys to become romantically infatuated with their mothers, and girls with…
They were a couple that at first blush must have seemed a shotgun wedding: thin, pear-shaped Philip Rieff, with his three-piece suit, bowler hat, watch fob, and…
The legacy of eccentricity that nineteenth century poet Emily Dickinson left for the rest of us to unravel after her death in 1886 has proven highly marketable…
In his writings Voegelin makes several references to Sigmund Freud, but he never engaged in the type of sustained philosophical analysis that he carried out with figures…
Or, Is it Worthwhile to Psychoanalyze Politicians? There was a time, not too long ago, when amateur psychoanalysis was in the toolbox of students, intellectuals, and even…