Da Freud a Sofocle: il sottosuolo della "Coscienza di Zeno"

In the article the author goes into the most significant stages of psychoanalytic criticism applied to the Svevo’s Confessions of Zeno. We consider two areas of investigation: firstly, we focus on the sections of the novel where is possible to see a reuse of material from Freud; secondly, we consider the parallel between the story of Zeno Cosini and Oedipus, in his double meaning of literary character and emblematic figure of the complex identified by Freud.