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Once again, the style of this post is a bit different from my previous ones. Instead of doing short, blurb-ish myth retelling like the ones I did over the summer, I'm going to try to shift the content of my blog into research. The following is a slightly modified version of a research paper I completed over the past two months, complete with Thesis and Bibliography. The following is my original research. Enjoy! Introduction  Since its conception, race has always been in conve

Sigmund Freud For all my craze about Freud and classics, I do have to admit that there are several valid critiques of Freudian theory out there. For one, Freud’s psychoanalysis is not backed in science. His theories on the “Oedipal” or the “phallic” are mere metaphors with no valid substance backing them outside of the fictional stories from which they are culled. What, then, makes psychoanalysis a worthy method of studying classics? According to the classicist Ellen Oliensis

This is a story of two unexpected lovers cursed with loving each other.  Psyche was the most beautiful girl on Earth. Suitors, both...