Open AccessThe Symbolic Topography of Oedipus’ Life. Some Remarks
Author(s) -
Elżbieta Wesołowska
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
symbolae philologorum posnaniensium graecae et latinae
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2720-2305
pISSN - 0302-7384
DOI - 10.14746/sppgl.2021.xxxi.1.24
Subject(s) - blindness , the imaginary , hero , reflexive pronoun , oedipus complex , psychoanalysis , identity (music) , punishment (psychology) , the symbolic , psychology , literature , philosophy , aesthetics , social psychology , art , medicine , psychoanalytic theory , optometry
The author of Oedipus Rex manages to reconstruct the hero’s life path against the background of the map of Greece of his day. In doing so he constructs the imaginary of the protagonist’s identity, one that is inextricably linked to his mental blindness as opposed to the tragic, self-inflicted blindness meted out to himself as a punishment for his crimes.