 | Paul Ricoeur - Psychology - 1970 - 594 pages
...man, so as to cease being fantasy and regression? Freud's final words do not provide a clear answer: "But it is in vain that an old man yearns for the love of a woman as he had it first from his mother: the third of the Fates alone, the silent Goddess of Death,... | |
 | J.M Masson - Gardening - 1980 - 242 pages
...three caskets (1913b, p. 301): .. .three forms taken by the figure of the mother in the course of a man's life - the mother herself, the beloved one who...the silent Goddess of Death, will take him into her arms. 1 Klein (1932). My objection to the Kleinian theory is that what makes an analyst good is exactly... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...sworn obedience. Only then will the superego be finished disillusioning us about the first mother. "But it is in vain that an old man yearns for the love of woman as he had it from his mother; the third of the Fates alone, the silent Goddess of Death, will take him into her... | |
 | David B. Allison - Philosophy - 1985 - 308 pages
...forms taken by the figure of the mother in the case of a man's life — the mother herself, the beloved who is chosen after her pattern, and, lastly, the...the silent Goddess of Death, will take him into her arms.34 In order to exhibit the metaphorical sequence of the vita/emina, we have invoked the concept... | |
 | Mary Arensberg - Poetry - 1986 - 242 pages
...Theme of the Three Caskets," Freud distinguishes this third woman from her original when he writes: "But it is in vain that an old man yearns for the love of a woman as he had it first from his mother: the third of the Fates alone, the silent goddess of death,... | |
 | Jane Silverman Van Buren - Art - 1989 - 242 pages
...or, to put it another way, there are three forms taken by the figure of a mother in the course of a man's life: the mother herself, the beloved one who is chosen after that pattern, and lastly the mother earth who receives him once more, the third of the Fates, the goddess... | |
 | Julia Reinhard Lupton, Kenneth Reinhard - Drama - 1993 - 290 pages
...destroys him; or that they are the three forms taken by the figure of the mother in the course of a man's life — the mother herself, the beloved one...the silent Goddess of Death, will take him into her arms. (SE 12:301) The passage revises the Sphinx's riddle by narrating man's life not according to... | |
 | Janet Sayers - Psychology - 1991 - 340 pages
...daughters, he wrote, represented the three forms taken by the figure of the mother in the course of a man's life - the mother herself, the beloved one who...and lastly the Mother Earth who receives him once more.7 However ominous the maternal character Freud thus attributed to Anna, he clung to her. After... | |
 | Mary Jacobus - Art - 1995 - 324 pages
...who destroys him; . . . they are the three forms taken by the figure of the mother in the course of a man's life — the mother herself, the beloved one...the silent Goddess of Death, will take him into her arms. (SE 12.301) Freud's yearning fantasy, as he entered what he thought of as his old age, underpins... | |
 | Sabine Prokhoris - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 230 pages
...emancipated subject can come to be. Freud concludes "The Theme of the Three Caskets" with these words: "But it is in vain that an old man yearns for the...the silent Goddess of Death, will take him into her arms." 49 But does he not then find peace? It seems to me that the conclusion one sees emerging from... | |
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... the mother herself, the beloved one who is chosen after her pattern, and lastly the Mother Earth who receives him once more. 
