Goethe and Patriarchy: Faust and the Fates of Desire.(Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: April 1, 2001| Author: Bishop, Paul | Copyright information

Goethe and Patriarchy: Faust and the Fates of Desire. By JAMES SIMPSON. Oxford: Legenda. 1998. xvi + 318 pp. 27.50 [pounds sterling].

According to Freud's theory of psychosexual development, the male child has to renounce his incestuous desire for the mother (and his concomitant identification with the father) in order to proceed to full genital maturity. In the language of the Beitrage zur Psychologie des Liebeslebens (1910-18), the ego drives and the sexual drives of the c...

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