Problem of the Self and the Other, Reality and Fantasy in Sophocles Tragedies

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying Sophocles tragedies, such as «Oedipus the King», «Oedipus at Colonus» and «Antigone» in the context of extremely general structures: the other, the self , space, time, destiny, fate. The event line of the tragedies is analyzed by including it in the principle of reality and as a result different sense sequences are created and expressed in certain structures of mental activity, particularly trough analysis and synthesis. Sophocles tragedies create a relevant place in the space of culture, which can be filled with different content.The ideas of Sophocles were developed in the plays of William Shakespeare, Jean-Paul Sartre and many other authors.