Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy

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"With readings of thirteen plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, including the Oedipus cycle, the Oresteia, Medea, and Bacchae; an eclectic synthesis of Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Žižek, Deleuze, and other critical theorists; and an engagement with art, architecture, and film, this book locates Greek tragedy's aesthetic allure beyond catharsis"-- Archive Feelings: A Theory of Greek Tragedy by Mario Telò Half title page Series title page Title page Copyright page Contents Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION • Re-impressions of Greek Tragedy: Toward Anti-cathartic Aesthetics I. FREUD AND THE DEATH DRIVE II. THE DEATH DRIVE AND THE ARCHIVE, DERRIDA AND FREUD III. ARCHIVE FEVER AND GREEK TRAGEDY’S DEATH DRIVES IV. ARDENT READING, CRITIQUE, AND POST-CRITIQUE Archival Time ONE • Archiving Oedipus I. RUSHING NOWHERE: SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS AT COLONUS II. SLOGGING TOWARD DEATH: EURIPIDES’ PHOENISSAE TWO • The Archive and the Loop I. “LET’S KEEP GOIN’!”: EURIPIDES’ MEDEA II. THAT SINKING FEELING: EURIPIDES’ HERACLES Archival Space THREE • Anorganic Archives I. BULIMIC FRIENDSHIP IN SOPHOCLES’ PHILOCTETES II. BINGEING AND BECOMING WATER: EURIPIDES’ HECUBA FOUR • Archival Crypts I. INTERRUPTION AND THE CRYPT: EURIPIDES’ IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS II. IN-CESS AND THE VOID: AESCHYLUS’S LIBATION BEARERS Archival Endings FIVE • Tragic Jolts, Jouissance, Impossibility I. ORGASMIC ANTI-CATHARSIS: AGAMEMNON, ANTIGONE, AND OEDIPUS THE KING AESCHYLUS, AGAMEMNON SOPHOCLES, ANTIGONE SOPHOCLES, OEDIPUS THE KING II. INTOXICATION AND IMPOSSIBILITY: EURIPIDES’ BACCHAE EPILOGUE • Reading Greek Tragedy, Reading Archivally Bibliography Index Series page