Abstract
Though Strindberg seemed to suffer with his misogyny for the better part of his life, he found outlets for it in his plays, most notably in Miss Julie. Katharine Rogers states there are a variety of cultural reasons for the phenomenon: (1) rejection of or guilt about sex; (2) a reaction against the idealization with which men have glorified women; (3) patriarchal feeling, the wish to keep women subject to men (Moi, 26). Of these notions about misogyny, point two is more in line with the notion of melancholia and misogyny as cooperative components in a psychological matrix. It is this notion that this chapter addresses.
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Axelrod, M. (2014). Poetics of Melancholia and Misogyny in August Strindberg and The Father . In: No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137447326_5
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