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Oedipus: The Meaning of a Masculine Life
This study reads Sophocles' Oedipus plays as a drammatization of the masculine life-cycle, the events of Oedipus's life mirroring the struggle for meaning in different stages of the aging process.
185 pages, Hardcover
First published December 31, 1998
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July 24, 2025A bit on the dry side and repetitive, it still is refreshing to read something on Oedipus and masculinity that isn't completely derivative of Freud.
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