RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Gaston Bachelard, Analogy, Oedipus Complex
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We see that the pursuit of one mythical complex tends to absorb all other myths into it. Proper place for analogy making is literature or mythology which eventually (cid:498)consummation), transforming power analogous to purgation develops into literature whole trend of bachlard"s book is towards that principle. Literary oedipus complex in bachelard"s sense: appears in every. What bachelard calls a complex should be renamed a myth, to represent a structural principle in literature comedy in which the hero is a son outwitting his father to get possession of a courtesan or other tabooed famle. Complexes dealt with are actually points at which literary myth becomes focused on its cardinal points of creation, redemption and apocalypse. In earlier part of cultural tradition: fire world was most significantly the world of heavenly bodies between heaven proper and the earth. Speaking of an object is preceded by our choosing, so the object reveals more about us than we do about it.
