The Author: Nicholas Ray is a Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds.

• Contents: The evolution of Freudian metapsychology and its relation to tragic drama – Parricide and subjectivity in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy – Concepts and stagings of trauma and transgenerational haunting – Alterity in the context of classical Greek and early-modern European culture – Dramatic and psychoanalytic configurations of mourning, repetition and identification – Jean Laplanche and the movement from a restricted to a general theory of seduction – Tragedies: Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet.

«‘Tragedy and Otherness’ is not a book to quickly breeze through. It aims to do much more than simply investigate psychoanalysis’s involvement with Greek tragedy. The book unfolds into a far-ranging exploration of the historical place and essence of both tragedy and psychoanalysis in Western culture. At the same time, Ray presents us with a captivating reflection about the interconnected issues of cultural transmission, knowledge and identity – subjects of major interest, not in the least to classical scholars. The effort of following him in this intellectual journey more than pays off.» (Nadia Sels, L’Antiquité Classique 81, 2012)

The Author: Nicholas Ray is a Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds.

• Contents: The evolution of Freudian metapsychology and its relation to tragic drama – Parricide and subjectivity in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy – Concepts and stagings of trauma and transgenerational haunting – Alterity in the context of classical Greek and early-modern European culture – Dramatic and psychoanalytic configurations of mourning, repetition and identification – Jean Laplanche and the movement from a restricted to a general theory of seduction – Tragedies: Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet.

«‘Tragedy and Otherness’ is not a book to quickly breeze through. It aims to do much more than simply investigate psychoanalysis’s involvement with Greek tragedy. The book unfolds into a far-ranging exploration of the historical place and essence of both tragedy and psychoanalysis in Western culture. At the same time, Ray presents us with a captivating reflection about the interconnected issues of cultural transmission, knowledge and identity – subjects of major interest, not in the least to classical scholars. The effort of following him in this intellectual journey more than pays off.» (Nadia Sels, L’Antiquité Classique 81, 2012)

The Author: Nicholas Ray is a Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds.

• Contents: The evolution of Freudian metapsychology and its relation to tragic drama – Parricide and subjectivity in Greek and Shakespearean tragedy – Concepts and stagings of trauma and transgenerational haunting – Alterity in the context of classical Greek and early-modern European culture – Dramatic and psychoanalytic configurations of mourning, repetition and identification – Jean Laplanche and the movement from a restricted to a general theory of seduction – Tragedies: Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Hamlet.

«‘Tragedy and Otherness’ is not a book to quickly breeze through. It aims to do much more than simply investigate psychoanalysis’s involvement with Greek tragedy. The book unfolds into a far-ranging exploration of the historical place and essence of both tragedy and psychoanalysis in Western culture. At the same time, Ray presents us with a captivating reflection about the interconnected issues of cultural transmission, knowledge and identity – subjects of major interest, not in the least to classical scholars. The effort of following him in this intellectual journey more than pays off.» (Nadia Sels, L’Antiquité Classique 81, 2012)