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Miss Rankin traces the Oedipal themes in Euripides's play stressing the psychological consequences of Hippolytus's illegitimate birth and the displacement of his feelings for his mother onto the goddess Artemis. His denunciation of his stepmother Phaedra, after being informed of her infatuation for him, is understood as a reaction formation.