Winkler, Bernhard (2017) Sun God and Sodomy The fatal Shame Conflict in Racine's "Phedre". PSYCHE-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOANALYSE UND IHRE ANWENDUNGEN, 71 (6). pp. 479-505. ISSN 0033-2623,
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Sun Gods and sodomy: The lethal shame conflict in Racine's "Phedre". - Phaedra in Racine's eponymous tragedy is the victim of a deadly shame conflict. The inherited family curse of her sexually deviant forebears is deeply inscribed in her psyche. Together with the experience of love-loss resulting from her rejection by her stepson Hippolytus, it prompts her to embrace death by suicide as the culmination of her shame. Racine's relentless psychological drama is structured throughout by the shame affect. The central figure is constantly haunted by the burning gaze of her divine mythological grandfather Helios. Racine situates the indissoluble conflicts of the tragedy in the mind of its heroine and dissects the shame affect with the estheticizing language of the genre. Phaedra's self-destructive flight into infernal night is the last resort for a figure convulsed by lethal shame.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ; shame; myth; theater; gaze; suicide |
| Subjects: | 400 Language > 430 Germanic |
| Divisions: | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Germanistik |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2018 13:10 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2019 10:29 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/760 |
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