SOURCE: Murray, Donald M. “Symbolic Landscape in the Greylock Episode of Thoreau's Week.” American Transcendental Quarterly 1, no. 2 (June 1987): 123‐32.
In the following essay, Murray offers a Freudian reading of the ascent of Mt. Greylock, claiming that Thoreau was motivated by Oedipal conflicts.
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