%0 Journal Article %T Micenas na Viena fin-de-si¨¨cle: Nietzsche, Freud, Hofmannsthal e o eterno retorno do mito %A Munk %A Leonardo %J Pandaemonium Germanicum %D 2012 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1982-88372012000200004 %X this article aims to investigate the correlation of thought between three leading names in the second half of the nineteenth century - friedrich nietzsche, sigmund freud and hugo von hofmannsthal - that have addressed the crisis of male identity against the return of matriarchy. considering the vienna fin-de-si¨¨cle as a backdrop, female is presented here through electra, a mythical heroine. in hofmannsthal's homonymous play, she represents not only strengthening as the woman's own destruction. %K history %K literature %K psychoanalysis %K austria. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1982-88372012000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en