The Ring : Richard Wagner's dream of pre-Oedipal destruction

Journal/Book: American Journal of Psychoanalysis. 1983; 43: 361-374.

Abstract: Discusses the universal appeal of R. Wagner's opera The Ring and argues that the curse of the ring is not in anything oedipal or in the subject of normal feminine sexuality and development, but lies in the deeper struggle that must be gone through by every pre-oedipal child. This struggle involves the eventual giving up of the grandiose self and the idealized parent imago and the acceptance of one's limitations without being consumed by narcissistic rage. (23 ref)

Note: dream of pre Oedipal destruction; comments on R. Wagner's opera "The Ring"

Keyword(s): Psychoanalytic interpretation; music

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