From the publisher:

A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France’s preeminent dramatist—and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author—Mitchell Greenberg’s work offers an exploration of Racinian tragedy to explain the enigma of the plays’ continued fascination. Greenberg shows how Racine uses myth, in particular the legend of Oedipus, to achieve his emotional power.

"Racine is a rich and ambitious psychoanalytic study of Jean Racine’s tragedies. Mitchell Greenberg brings to his interpretation of these plays an impressively thorough knowledge of psychoanalysis, in both its clinical and anthropological dimensions, and he uses that knowledge to provide an innovative, original interpretation of the material." -- Jay Caplan, Amherst College