<p>Dr. Bennett Simon provides a psychoanalytic reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia, Euripedes' Medea, Shakespeare's King Lear and Macbeth, O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, and Beckett's Endgame, six plays from ancient to modern times which involve a particular form of intrafamily warfare: the killing of children or of the possibility of children.</p>

Tragic Drama and the Family: Psychoanalytic Studies from Aeschylus to Beckett

Literature & Fiction

Simon M.D., Dr. Bennett

Dramas & Plays

Yale University Press

This fascinating book, which presents an early psychoanalyst’s session-by-session notes on a case of hysteria caused by severe sexual trauma and incest, offers a vivid portrait of psychoanalytic practice in the second decade of the twentieth century. Accompanying these notes are insightful commentaries by Elizabeth Lunbeck and Bennett Simon that situate the case historically and throw light on the many difficulties that both analyst and patient encountered in the treatment. The book will be of great interest to students of the history of psychoanalysis and other psychological therapies, to those interested in the history of women and gender, and to clinicians struggling with the treatment of severely traumatized patients today.

Family Romance, Family Secrets: Case Notes from an American Psychoanalysis, 1912

Simon, Bennett

Lunbeck, Elizabeth

Lunbeck, Associate Prof Elizabeth

History

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