Sigmund Freud aptly noted that three of the greatest literary masterpieces of all time are concerned with the topic of parricide – Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
All three works are more so related by a common apparent motive for the deed: sexual rivalry for a woman. Parricide in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov, however, transcends the love triangle between Grushenka, Dmitri and his father Fyodor; not only as the murder is committed by the fourth, illegitimate brother, Smerdyakov, but because of its metaphorical relationship to questions of God, the father. Concisely, “rebellion” of the Karamazov brothers towards their father Fyodor Pavlovich and God concerns the question: “is an unworthy and uncaring father still entitled to the love and respect of his sons?”
(in Lethbridge Undergraduate Research Journal.
2008. Volume
3
Number
2)
Sunday 11 November 2012
The Great Inquisitor
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Boa! Estamos de leituras sincronizadas!
Tenho o notes from the underground (leitura ainda nas primeiras paginas) no quarto e o livro que estou a ler mais frequentemente nas ultimas semanas e' o Interpretation of Dreams onde aparentemente e' onde o Freud faz, pela primeira vez, referencia ao Edipo de Sofocles. E' curioso o Edipo ser um detalhe a meio de um capitulo. Nem sequer isso, ele comeca a falar do Edipo a meio de um paragrafo... mas depois gasta 3 paginas a descreve-lo. E fala tb do Hamlet, nao ha referencia ao Dostoievsky (nesta parte pelo menos). Isto aparece no capitulo sobre sonhos comuns - sonhar com a morte de pessoas queridas...
Abraco, Luis
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