Ipsaque morte peior est mortis locus. The underworld in Seneca’s

• Authors: Stróżyński Mateusz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper analyses the episode of Hercules’ journey to the underworld in Seneca’s Hercules furens. The starting point is the contemporary psychoanalysis school of object relations; the research method combines psychoanalytic interpretive methods with a philological text analysis. The underworld passage, showing Hercules’ weakness and superbia, can be treated as the key to understanding the entire play.

Keywords

EN

Seneca; Hercules furens; psychoanalysis; the unconscious

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Classica Cracoviensia
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 16
• Pages: 137-164

Contributors

author

Stróżyński Mateusz

• Adam Mickiewicz University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/CC.16.2013.16.10