I shall rehearse the the Oedipus myth from a point of view which makes the sexual crime a peripheral element of a story in which the central crime is the arrogance of Oedipus...
this shift of emphasis brings the following elements into the centre:
the sphinx, who asks the riddle and destroys herself when it is aswered, the blind Tiresias, who possesses knowledge and deplores the resolve of the king to search for it, the oracle that provokes the search...and again the king who, when his search concludes...
this shift of emphasis brings the following elements into the centre:
the sphinx, who asks the riddle and destroys herself when it is aswered, the blind Tiresias, who possesses knowledge and deplores the resolve of the king to search for it, the oracle that provokes the search...and again the king who, when his search concludes...
The riddle traditionally attributed to the Sphinx is an expression of man's curiosity turned upon himself
curiosity has the same status in the myths of the garden of Eden and the Tower of Babel
- it is a Sin
text: Bion,1963 "elements of psychoanalysis"; 1967 "second thoughts".
image: Moreau, 1864, "Oedipus and the Sphinx"
- it is a Sin
text: Bion,1963 "elements of psychoanalysis"; 1967 "second thoughts".image: Moreau, 1864, "Oedipus and the Sphinx"
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