Fascinating that with such tremendous erudition you should zoom off on one of the least relevant tangents imaginable, Shane. I suppose the content of other people's remarks are much less interesting to you than the thrill of demonstrating your superior knowledge regarding an arcane footnote to a epigram. I was talking about Oedipus. Rosenberg was talking about Oedipus. So "apart from Oedipos..." your indignant objection was a complete *non-sequitur*. My humblest apologies if you were offended by my use of the conventional English spelling of "Oedipus."
On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Shane Mage <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 4, 2014, at 5:23 PM, Tom Walker wrote: > > I've expanded on my thoughts regarding Oedipus... > > > "The central intuition of Greek tragedy, as of psychoanalysis, is that > there is one, unique fact which each individual anxiously struggles to > conceal from himself, and this is the very fact that is the root of his > identity." -- Harold Rosenberg, "The Riddle of Oedipus"..."The tension of > Oedipus arises from its hero's insistence on continuing the investigation > as an aim to be fulfilled after its horrid findings are as predictable as a > result in mathematics." > > This view is something of a universal platitude, deriving from something > like a Cliff Notes summarty of Aristotles "Poetics." If is quite false. If > we consider only the protagonists (let alone all the personae) of Greek > Tragedy we see that, apart from Oedipos [Tyrannos], there is exactly *one* > that fits, Pentheus (Ajax, of course, has gone quite insane). But all the > rest--Prometheus, Agammemnon, Oedipos [at Colonos], Elektra, Antigone, > Andromache, Orestes, Philoktetes, Medea, Eteocles/Polyneices, Helen, > Herakles, Iphigeneia, et. al., are perfectly aware of their identities > right down to their ancestral roots. > Greek tragedy is about myth, history, and society. "Psychology," let > alone psychoanalysis, is among the least of its concerns! > > Shane Mage > > > This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it > always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, > kindling in measures and going out in measures. > > Herakleitos of Ephesos > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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