? ? Reflections on King Oedipus 2022 1
? King Oedipus is the creation of Sophocles, and it is also based on myths and legends. The story itself has a tragic beginning.
? So I made the following simple answer.
? The depth of history is reality, and the depth of individuals is people.
? How to treat people's writing about Oedipus for thousands of years?
? Freud's conclusion about "Oedipus Complex" is not a whim.
? In all previous literary works, writers have copied "King Oedipus" one after another in the text, the most famous of which is Hamlet in Revenge of the Prince.
? In On the Relationship between Analytical Psychology and Poetry, Jung believes that every plateau intention contains a fragment of human spirit and human destiny, a little bit of the residue of joy and sadness that has been repeated countless times in the history of our ancestors. Generally speaking, it always follows the same route. It's like a river bed dug deep in psychology, and the stream of life suddenly surges into a big river, instead of flowing forward in a wide and shallow stream as in the past.
? Therefore, Hamlet's revenge is also a rebellion and reconstruction of patriarchy.
? The starting point of Oedipus, in the final analysis, is the tragedy of fate and the inevitable powerless reality.
? Looking back, it can be associated with ancient Greek myths and legends.
? At the beginning of the universe, among the gods born in chaos, there was a mother Gaia who gave birth to the god Uranus from herself. Uranus and Gaia gave birth to six men and six women, all named Titan. Uranus imprisoned his son and daughter underground, and his son kronos rose to seize the power of his father and married his sister Rhea. When kronos heard that he would be overthrown by a son, he swallowed his own child. But the youngest son Zeus was hidden by Rhea. When Zeus came of age, he really defeated kronos, became the king of the gods, and established the Olympus system.
? Sophocles' creation is also based on myths and legends.
? In fact, the author is the spokesman of the collective unconscious. Art conceived in the author's mind is not the author's own work. It arbitrarily imposes itself on the author, and the characters emerge from the author's pen perfectly. It seems that they came into this world dressed up. The original intention from the unconscious restricts, influences and helps the author's imagination, which makes the author's imagination develop in some fixed directions in people's minds, thus producing shocking effects.
? Therefore, the development of the image of "Oedipus" can not only express the collective unconsciousness of human beings through individuals, but also reflect the changing reality of human beings in historical development.
? This reality has abandoned the cloak of "killing father and marrying mother". In reality, it is more manifested in the tragedy of self-struggle but unable to overcome the id. Therefore, good and evil are sometimes closely intertwined, and reason and logic cannot be separated.
? Thus, "Oedipus complex" is not the evil of human nature, but the evil of thought.
? Reflection on King Oedipus in 2022 II
? In today's increasingly diversified text reading, we always scatter various interpretations from countless themes: modern, post-modern, realistic and surreal. As long as you want, there will always be results.
? However, our proposition will always return to several essential issues, which have long been put forward by ancient sages. After years of ups and downs in the long river of history, it still stands. Like fate.
? I tried to answer a question I asked myself: Is my future doomed? If so, will what I am doing now have an impact on my future? If not, then why should I do it? This cycle is repeated, and it gradually falls into the boring problem of endless cycle of chicken laying eggs and egg laying chickens.
? If I had read the book King Oedipus earlier, maybe I wouldn't have devoted my limited life to this infinite boredom. At least he can tell you whether to surrender or fight back.
? As the son of Clentos, Oedipus was regarded as superior from an early age. When I prayed to Apollo for the Oracle, I accidentally learned my fate: when I killed my father and married my mother. He resolutely left the city of Clentos. On the road of wandering, they met a group of abusive travelers, and there was a conflict and a bloody case, which gradually became a headless case. After that, Oedipus solved the mystery of the Sphinx and the crisis of the city of Tebai, thus becoming a hero of the city and a king.
? A few years later, the prelude of fate came quietly, and the plague in Tebai was rampant, and the people were miserable. Oedipus ordered his brother-in-law Creon to go to the temple of Apollo to pray for the Oracle. Creon brought the Oracle and disaster. Oedipus first learned that he was a stain on the city of Tebai through the prophet Tlesi Yas, but he preferred to believe that Creon and Tresias were trying to usurp the throne.
? It was not until the messenger of Clentos who came to tell the news reached an agreement with the confession of the shepherd who personally saved him many years ago that he believed that he was a boat in the torrent of fate after all, and once fate came, it would become an avalanche. He rushed into Iokaster's room where his wife and mother prevented him from knowing the truth, and found that he had committed suicide, so he resolutely pulled out Iokaster's hairpin and stabbed himself in the eye.
? He can't die, he has no face to face his parents in the underworld, and he has to be an ascetic and beg to offset his sins with realistic suffering.
? Oedipus' life is undoubtedly a life of struggle, and he fights against his fearful fate. However, his escape personally put himself on the cusp. As Oscar Wilde, a British aesthete, said: The place where he hurried is actually a land of blood and light.
? The tragedy of ancient Greece has always been regarded as the tragedy of fate. Every time Oedipus fought, whether it was to leave Clentos to repel the Sphinx or to investigate the cause of the plague for the survival of Thebes people, it was a fierce contest with fate. He plays hide-and-seek with fate, which is actually a trick to hide his ears. He believed in fate, so he ran away from it: he left Clentos to solve the Sphinx. He thought he was far away, but he was actually approaching. Until the outbreak of xx, he has irrevocably stepped into the trap of fate. At this time, his escape made the Oracle, and fate seemed to hide behind a tree, showing a ferocious smile.
? The tragedy of Oedipus is actually everyone's tragedy. We can't know how fate will show its magic, and if not, what form it will take. Maybe, afterwards, we will say, if at the beginning. But we can't repeat our lives, and fate cruelly isolates us from the past.
? Maybe we can't change the outcome of fate objectively, but we can try to hide our ears subjectively: narrow the outcome, enlarge the process, and make the struggle itself meaningful, so that even if we don't hold the fate by the throat, we can still spend this life proudly. This is also the consciousness that everyone who is positive and optimistic about life should have.
? Reflections on King Oedipus in 2022 3
? Sophocles' King Oedipus is short but not monotonous. Perhaps the times have endowed it with fatalism, but I still read about people's brave exploration of truth and destiny. Even if this kind of exploration eventually becomes the thrust of the development of tragedy, it still shines.
? The city of Tebai is the entrance to Oedipus' fate. He rescued it from the clutches of the Sphinx, but he didn't know that bad luck was waiting for an opportunity in the dark corner. Finally, Tebaicheng became a ghost, and his mind was full of sad songs. Fate is a cage, and Oedipus, shrouded in prophecy, unconsciously falls into the quagmire of fate. As the truth approached step by step, he thought anxiously about the coming disaster. When all the puzzles are solved, the sky will fall, and the disaster will be terrible, sinking his once belonging and subordination, and he has to admit his blindness painfully. Killing the father he shouldn't have killed, marrying the mother he shouldn't have married, the spell predictions came true one by one, he blinded his eyes and exiled himself, and the tragedy was doomed from the beginning ...
? Why did King Oedipus become a tragedy? It lies in the contradiction and struggle between the layers in the play, and the shocking force produced by this collision has shaken our established understanding and belief. In the tragedy, the more Oedipus fled, the more he could not escape, and the more tightly the net of "Apocalypse" was entangled, so Oedipus had to bear the unbearable weight of life. Undoubtedly, in the face of irreversible fate, we are confused and helpless to the unknown world, but we still have to fight against it; We have no idea about fate, but what we have is not only the humbleness and fragility of human nature, but also stubbornness and strength. "People will suffer when their thoughts rise, but they will see more things. He can't land because it's dangerous down there and the process of rising is very painful. " Oedipus is fearless. He paid the pain in his heart and sought the answer from fate. In such a tragic elegy, we should understand that the mystery of the Sphinx is there, shocking and shocking. What we have to think about is whether we can see the answer and dare to answer it, because it is a choice between bending and blindness, truth and existence. "Man" is the answer to everything …