2010
DOI: 10.1353/mou.2010.0026
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Rending Others: Ethical Contagio in Seneca’s Thyestes

Abstract: External agents play a substantial role in the construction of the self in Seneca’s Thyestes . The intersubjective quality of self-formation for which I argue challenges psychoanalytic interpretations that read Senecan drama in terms of self-constructed identity and internal conflict (Shelton 1977; Segal 1986: 10–17, 34, 223–225; Fitch and McElduff 2002; Schiesaro 2003). References to Stoic materialism and Lacanian theory provide both ancient and modern frameworks for reading the inter-subjective logic of the … Show more

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