Phaedre and Passion in Hippolytus


by Olivia Hunt - Date: 2007-07-06 - Word Count: 229 Share This!

Being a part of a civilized world, Phaedre was suffering as she was confused by her opposite feelings to Hippolytus that led to neurosis. She felt aggressiveness, uneasiness, and a sense of guilt as a kind of anxiety: ‘obsessional neurosis, the sense of guilt makes itself noisily heard in consciousness; it dominates the clinical picture and the patient's life as well, and it hardly allows anything else to appear alongside of it. Even in obsessional neurosis there are types of patients who are not aware of their sense of guilt, or who only feel it as a tormenting uneasiness, a kind of anxiety' (Freud 98). In other words, she felt a sort of malaise and a dissatisfaction of the current state of things. It should be pointed out that religion has never missed a chance to use a sense of guilt and the death is an essential part of the life.
In his works, Friedrich Nietzsche develops a theory that a man cannot live happily as he has nothing to compare happy moments of his life with, and, therefore, he cannot understand all its beauty: ‘When a man finds himself situated in such a way that the world is happy reflected in him, without entailing any destruction or suffering - as on a beautiful spring morning - he can let himself be carried away by the resulting enchantment or simply joy. B


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