Reading literature through the looking glass of theory.
Antigone by Sophocles
When the mean ruler Creon refuses to honor Antigone's brother Polyneices with burial rites, this total rebel stages a protest that has resounded through the centuries. In addition to gracing countl...
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Hamlet is practically tailor-made for Freudians. The sheer number of Freudian concepts that are applicable to Shakespeare's magnum opus is crazy. There is a father who must be avenged, but also a s...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Remember Mary Shelley's monster? Well, he's back. And this time, he represents all of our deepest and most stubbornly denied desires. Just as the creature haunts Victor Frankenstein, his creator, o...
"In Memory of Sigmund Freud" by W. H. Auden
Have some Kleenex at the ready, folks, because this one's a real tear-jerker. Auden's beautiful and moving elegy is both a tribute to Freud's intellectual legacy and a testament to his importance t...