A Freudian Analysis of Ovid's "Metamorphoses"

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The paper traces the story of King Minos of Crete in the story, "Metamorphoses" by ancient Roman author, Ovid. The paper begins from his spurning of the worshipful Scylla to his own betrayal by first his wife Pasiphae and then his daughter Ariadne and illustrates through various relationships how the filial connection is thrown off, basing the patterns of this dissolution on Freud's theories.

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"Ovid's story of the tale of Icarus is a tale unto itself but at the same time it is the climax of a broader story. Icarus' death is the final tragedy to result from the maze his father, Daedalus, built to imprison the Minotaur. Throughout the story of the Cretan labyrinth, the process of the dissolution of the Oedipal complex is central as is the manner in which the wish fulfillment connected with that process expresses itself through feelings of either totemic hostility or Oedipal guilt (depending on the gender of the child)."

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