Sophocles' Biography

Scodel, Ruth

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“…My view that the hothouse in the Vision is the negative aspect of the androgyne Harforetus is supported by Jung's contention that Mercurius, whom I identify with Harforetus, is both "the revelatory light of nature" and "also hellfire" (Jung, 1943(Jung, /1948. 23 According to Scodel (1984), the one recourse for the helpless in ancient Greece was to become a suppliant to a god "so as to demand protection from other human beings"; thus, in doing his duty, Theseus avoids "the anger of the gods" (p. 107).…”

Section: The Forgotten Kingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth

Ajuonuma

2023

J Analytical Psychology

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The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it. The absence of a developed Jungian response to Oedipus means the myth’s psychologically constructive elements have been overlooked in favour of reductive Freudian interpretations. I examine whether analytical psychology can fruitfully re‐engage with Oedipus by reinterpreting his story as a paternal rebirth. This is achieved by reincorporating those parts of the myth that occur before and after the period portrayed in Oedipus Rex. Such a move reintegrates Oedipus’ father, King Laius, into the story and unveils important parallels with the alchemical trope of the king’s renewal by his son. Using Jung’s method of amplification, Oedipus is recast as Laius’ redeemer and identified with the archetype of psychological wholeness, the Self. The contention is that such an understanding of Oedipus supports a clearer recognition of the potentially generative quality of human suffering, restoring to the myth the quality of moral instruction it possessed in antiquity.

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The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth

Ajuonuma

2023

J Analytical Psychology

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Edipo en Colono y la guerra civil en Atenas

Gállego¹

2016

Dossier : Les « mystères »

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Truly Bewept, Full of Strife: The Myth of Antigone, the Burial of Enemies, and the Ideal of Reconciliation in Ancient Greek Literature

Kocijančič

Moe²

2021

Clotho

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In postwar Western culture, the myth of Antigone has been the subject of noted literary, literary-critical, dramatic, philosophical, and philological treatments, not least due to the strong influence of one of the key plays of the twentieth century, Jean Anouilh’s Antigone. The rich discussion of the myth has often dealt with its most famous formulation, Sophocles’ Antigone, but has paid less attention to the broader ancient context; the epic sources (the Iliad, Odyssey, Thebaid, and Oedipodea); the other tragic versions (Aeschylus’s Seven Against Thebes and his lost Eleusinians; Euripides’s Suppliants, Phoenician Women, and Antigone, of which only a few short fragments have been preserved); and the responses of late antiquity. This paper analyses the basic features of this nearly thousand-year-long ancient tradition and shows how they connect in surprising ways – sometimes even more directly than Sophoclean tragedy does – with the main issues in some unique contemporary traditions of its reception (especially the Slovenian, Polish and Argentine ones): the question of burying the wartime (or postwar) dead and the ideal of reconciliation.

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Sophocles' Biography

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth

The Alchemical Oedipus: Re‐Visioning the Myth

Edipo en Colono y la guerra civil en Atenas

Truly Bewept, Full of Strife: The Myth of Antigone, the Burial of Enemies, and the Ideal of Reconciliation in Ancient Greek Literature

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