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In his conclusion, Greenberg asks, 'Could we not say that Racine was one of the first artists to portray the conflicts that Freud would theorize three hundred years later?' (p. 246). This question is at least as old as Charles Mauron's influential 1957 study on the unconscious in Racine's works, yet this new book, while continuing the rich tradition of psychoanalytic approaches to Racine, also differs in important ways. Greenberg's Freud is primarily the author of the later cultural studies (Totem and Taboo, Moses and Monotheism), and the additional psychoanalytically informed sources that he mobilizes are wide-ranging, including ethnopsychiatry, psychosociology, anthropology and studies of classical drama. Emphasizing the...