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The Sacred Complex : On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost / William Kerrigan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©1983Edition: Reprint 2014Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674418844
  • 9780674418851
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821/.4
LOC classification:
  • PR3562
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BEGINNING WITH A TRUE POEM -- 2. THE ROOT–BOUND LADY -- 3. NEW ADAM: SACRED HISTORY AS PSYCHIC HISTORY -- 4. THE WAY TO STRENGTH FROM WEAKNESS -- 5. “ONE FIRST MATTER ALL”: SPIRIT AS ENERGY -- 6. THE PLACE OF REST -- NOTES. INDEX -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: 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 Milton's analogies linking human, angelic, and cosmic bodies; and explores Milton's symbolism of home. In a commanding demonstration, Kerrigan delineates how the great epic and the psyche of its author bestow meaning on each other.
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Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. BEGINNING WITH A TRUE POEM -- 2. THE ROOT–BOUND LADY -- 3. NEW ADAM: SACRED HISTORY AS PSYCHIC HISTORY -- 4. THE WAY TO STRENGTH FROM WEAKNESS -- 5. “ONE FIRST MATTER ALL”: SPIRIT AS ENERGY -- 6. THE PLACE OF REST -- NOTES. INDEX -- NOTES -- INDEX

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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 Milton's analogies linking human, angelic, and cosmic bodies; and explores Milton's symbolism of home. In a commanding demonstration, Kerrigan delineates how the great epic and the psyche of its author bestow meaning on each other.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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