Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles Through Freud to Cocteau by Almut-Barbara Renger

Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles Through Freud to Cocteau

Almut-Barbara Renger with Duncan Alexander Smart (Translator), David Rice (Translator)

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nonfiction classics literary psychology religion reflective medium-paced
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When Oedipus met the Sphinx on the road to Thebes, he did more than answer a riddle--he spawned a myth that, told and retold, would become one of Western culture's central narratives about self-understanding. Identifying the story as a threshold m...

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