Dora Verus Dora

Exploding the Myth in Wise Children

in Critical Survey
Author:
Judy HaydenUniversity of Toledo jhayden@ut.edu

Search for other papers by Judy Hayden in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed
Close
View More View Less
Restricted access

'A woman attends a funeral. The coffin is lowered into the grave. A man approaches her and says, "He was not your father."' Thus begins a book, On Birth and Madness, by Eric Rhode, an opening reproduced in a review by Angela Carter. In this 'wayward and infuriating book', Carter observes, Rhode is remarkably absorbed by paternity, by Oedipus, by Hamlet and by Freud's LIttle Hans – in a book which ostensibly addresses maternity. Whose child we are, our paternity, Carter counters, is a 'profoundly absurd question' ('Rhode', 202–03).

  • Collapse
  • Expand

Metrics

All Time Past Year Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 106 34 3
Full Text Views 5 0 0
PDF Downloads 9 0 0