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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost

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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost - Kerrigan, William
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This reading of Milton juxtaposes the poet's theology and Freud's account of the Oedipus complex in ways that yield both new understanding of Milton and a model for psychoanalytic interpretation of literature. The book ranges widely through the art and life of Milton, including extensive discussions of his theological irregularities and the significance, medical and symbolic, he assigned to his blindness. Kerrigan analyzes the oedipal aspect of Milton's religion; examines the nature of the Miltonic godhead; studies ...

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The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost 1983, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

ISBN-13: 9780674785007

Hardcover

The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost 1983, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674418844

Reprint 2014 edition

Hardcover