SOURCE: Wygant, Amy. “Medea, Poison, and the Epistemology of Error in Phèdre.” Modern Language Review 95, no. 1 (January 2000): 62-71.
In the following essay, Wygant offers a Freudian interpretation of Phèdre, suggesting that the title character is the figure of tragedy whose suicide represents Racine's professional suicide and his contrition to his Jansenist fathers.
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