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Ipsaque morte peior est mortis locus. The underworld in Seneca’s Hercules furens
Ipsaque morte peior est mortis locus. The underworld in Seneca’s Hercules furens

Author(s): Mateusz Stróżyński
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: KSIĘGARNIA AKADEMICKA Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: Seneca; Hercules furens; psychoanalysis; the unconscious

Summary/Abstract: The present paper analyses the episode of Hercules’ journey to the underworld in Seneca’s Hercules furens. The starting point is the contemporary psychoanalysis school of object relations; the research method combines psychoanalytic interpretive methods with a philological text analysis. The underworld passage, showing Hercules’ weakness and superbia, can be treated as the key to understanding the entire play.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 16
  • Page Range: 137-164
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: English