Oedipus against the grain
Keywords:
Oedipus complex, Aesthetic conflict, Generalized seduction, L, H, K Emotional bonds, Filicide, Primary violenceAbstract
The author examines the trajectory of Oedipus according to Sophocles' tragedy, focusing on the suffering that was originally inflicted on him, prior to his return to Thebes. From a poem he wrote entitled “Against the Grain” he gives voice to the suffering, and wronged Oedipus who returns to ostensibly show the population of Polis, through his swollen ankles, the torture he suffered at birth at the hands of Laius and Jocasta. In parallel to this voice, we hear another that comments on Oedipus' behavior from the perspective of various psychoanalytic theories supported by Freud, Bion, Melanie Klein, Laplanche, Meltzer and Ferenczi. The article emphasizes how much Oedipus lacked primary love experiences and how this deprivation left deep marks on his character and conduct. In the text, Laius' murder is presented as deserved revenge together with the accusation against the people of Thebes of collusion with their criminal fathers. This lends the work a political-social denunciation character absent in the original. This Oedipus goes against the grain in that it proposes to address Oedipus the subject and not Oedipus the king and consequently Oedipus the victim rather than the arrogant and triumphant hero guilty of incest and patricide.
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