The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau
by
Almut-Barbara Renger
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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 myth—in which the hero crosses over into an unknown...