TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kerrigan,William
TI  - The Sacred Complex: On the Psychogenesis of Paradise Lost 
SN  - 9780674418844
AV  - PR3562 
U1  - 821/.4 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Englische Literatur
KW  - Ethos
KW  - Psyche
KW  - Psychoanalysis and literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674418851
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674418851
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