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A Systematic Review of Phaedra’s Love through a Psychoanalytical Approach

First being staged in 1996, Phaedra’s Love marks Sarah Kane’s ferocious exploration of sex, family and violence through a distinctively modern display of human brutality between tragic characters previously echoed in Euripides’ Hippolytus and Seneca’s more contemporary Phaedra. The intention of this paper is to apply Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual and psychoanalytical theories to Phaedra’s Love in order to foster a deeper discovery about the character’s relationships, subtext and motivations.