Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Dialogue of Clytemnestra and Electra about Orestes’s childhood, with a nod to Jung

A book page with the English text of a dialogue between Electra and Clytemnestra about the infant Orestes.

Mothers in every age want obedience from their children and grandchildren from their obedience, and above all obedience in the matter of grandchildren.

Forgive me for propping up my thesis with a quotation from Clytemnestra, that very mother, slain by her son Orestes at the instigation of his jealous sister Electra. Greetings to Jung

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