{"title":"Being Achilles’ Heir: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Neoptolemus in Sophocles’ Philoctetes","authors":"Cecilia Cozzi","doi":"10.1353/hel.2022.a904789","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article offers a psychoanalytical reading of Neoptolemus’s evolution on stage in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. The analysis stems from Italian psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati’s definition of inheritance as a movement of reclamation, which entails the heir’s active choice in approaching his father’s example. In the end of the play, Neoptolemus emerges as a good heir, because he neither dismissed Achilles’ values entirely (as Odysseus demanded in the prologue), nor did he re-enact his father’s behavior uncritically, as Philoctetes was expecting. Neoptolemus deliberately chooses to reclaim his Achillean ethos, without overlooking the importance of other forces at work (friendship and piety).","PeriodicalId":43032,"journal":{"name":"HELIOS","volume":"49 1","pages":"111 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"HELIOS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/hel.2022.a904789","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article offers a psychoanalytical reading of Neoptolemus’s evolution on stage in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. The analysis stems from Italian psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati’s definition of inheritance as a movement of reclamation, which entails the heir’s active choice in approaching his father’s example. In the end of the play, Neoptolemus emerges as a good heir, because he neither dismissed Achilles’ values entirely (as Odysseus demanded in the prologue), nor did he re-enact his father’s behavior uncritically, as Philoctetes was expecting. Neoptolemus deliberately chooses to reclaim his Achillean ethos, without overlooking the importance of other forces at work (friendship and piety).
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