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Book SynopsisThese hard-to-find writings afford an inside look 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.
Trade Review"Readers of
Oedipus Unbound will, I wager, both enjoy and find enlightenment in the newly-combined set of essays by Girard and Mark Anspach's expert introduction. My advice would be to take the book down from the shelf and take it home."—
COV&R BulletinTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Editor's Acknowledgments i Editor's Introduction: Imitating Oedipus iii @toc2:1 From the Novelistic Experience to the Oedipal Myth 000 2 Oedipus Analyzed 000 3 Symmetry and Dissymmetry in the Myth of Oedipus 000 4 Doubles and the Pharmakos in Levi-Strauss, Frye, Derrida and Shakespeare 000 5 The Myth of Oedipus, the Truth of Joseph 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Sophocles, Oedipus rex, Sophocles Characters Oedipus, Oedipus (Greek mythology) in literature, Oedipus complex in literature, Psychology in literature, Competition (Psychology)Sophocles Influence, Incest in literature, Desire in literature
