Chapter 5. Psychologizing Oedipus: Reason and Unreason in Aristotle’s Ethics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I Ancient Greece
5. Chapter 1. Reason and the Irrational: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus 10
6. Chapter 2. Literature and Moral Psychology: From Homer to Sophocles 47
7. Chapter 3. Aristotle’s Poetics: Oedipus and the Problem of Tragedy 70
8. Chapter 4. Psuche Redux: Philosophy and the New Psychology 95
9. Chapter 5. Psychologizing Oedipus: Reason and Unreason in Aristotle’s Ethics 107
10. Part II Golden Age Denmark
11. Chapter 6. Tragedy as Historical Idea: Either/Or’s “Ancient Drama Reflected in the Modern” 140
12. Chapter 7. Stages on Life’s Way: Hamartia after Modernity 158
13. Chapter 8. Fear and Trembling: Tragedy, Comedy and the Heroism of Abraham 195
14. Chapter 9. The Concept of Anxiety: Fate and the Tragic Logos of Second Ethics 209
15. Chapter 10. Moral Psychology in the Pseudonyms, Search for a Method 237
16. Chapter 11. Ethics Contra Ethics: Climacus on Eternal Happiness and Tragic Virtue 265
17. Chapter 12. Kierkegaard and the Tragedy of Authorship 293
18. Backmatter 317