Aus: Anmerkungen zum Oedipus

Hölderlin, Friedrich

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“…This is possible if one, like Oedipus, turns towards the things ahead, towards the goal not yet attained, towards the consciousness not yet here. This demands courage, and this is the reason we -as Hölderlin (1952) has noted -look at him as a hero: Oedipus has the courage to take hold of himself. It takes place in a dialogue with others.…”

Section: The Case Of Oedipus Rexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditions of Understanding in Psychoanalysis

Enckell

2020

Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalysts try to facilitate their patients’ grasp and understanding of themselves. Since the mid-19th century, we have two conceptions of understanding. In one tradition, we need to suspect presented pictures and try to get “behind” facades in order to grasp the “true” self. In this tradition we get a hold of ourselves if we look for the origins: we need to see where we come from. In the other tradition we should not try to “tear off the masks”, but start a dialogue with the text or person we try to understand. If we succeed in this, the truth “steps forward”. In this conception we need to move on to goals and positions not yet attained. According to the general view Freud belongs to the first tradition. The author asks how we view understanding in modern psychoanalysis. Through a reading of (1) the Boston Change Process Study Group, (2) Peter Fonagy and Mary Target and (3) Veikko and Riitta Tähkä he concludes that we in psychoanalysis have moved from the first to the second tradition. He discusses what inferences we should draw regarding technique and theory, concentrating on the phenomena and concepts of interpretation and the unconscious.

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Section: The Case Of Oedipus Rexmentioning

confidence: 99%

Traditions of Understanding in Psychoanalysis

Enckell

2020

Romanian Journal of Psychoanalysis

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“…In Antigone and Oedipus, this consists in an unrestrained self-affirmation moving towards a quasi-divine status, which Hölderlin characterized as a 'monstrous coupling between God and man'. 22 There are, however, fundamental differences in how Antigone and Oedipus couple with God. Antigone's divine madness consists of how she equates herself to Zeus and acts with divine authority in her confrontation with King Creon.…”

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The Pagan-Christian Admixture in Romeo Castellucci's Oedipus the Tyrant

Hyldig¹

2017

New Theatre Quarterly

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In 2015, the Italian director Romeo Castellucci presented Oedipus the Tyrant at the Schaubühne in Berlin. His staging was based on the German poet-philosopher Friedrich Hölderlin's translation of 1804, which is known for its peculiar linguistic, philosophical, and theatrical approaches to Greek tragedy. In this article Keld Hyldig examines how Castellucci, in a response to Hölderlin's translation and commentaries on the tragedy, staged Oedipus as a theatrical and philosophical confrontation between religious and rational approaches to knowledge. The staging was seemingly simple, showing a group of nuns performing Oedipus in a monastery. However, the nuns’ Christian and feminine performance of the pagan and masculine tragedy was the basis of a metatheatrical complexity, which was reinforced through a film projection showing Romeo Castellucci getting tear gas sprayed in his eyes, making the relation between physical reality and fictional representation problematic. Keld Hyldig is an Associate Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Bergen. He has published several articles about the Ibsen tradition in Norwegian theatre and is currently working on a monograph on that subject.

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“…The truth‐seeking Oedipus has been vividly described by Hölderlin, who translated Sophocles’ play into German in the 1790s. In his notes to the text he emphasizes Oedipus’s “…desperate struggle to come to himself, the roughshod, almost shameless striving to become master of his own, the foolish–wild searching after a consciousness” (Hölderlin, 1952, vol. 5: 199, Rudnytsky’s translation).…”

Section: The Truth‐seeking Oedipusmentioning

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Oedipus the King: Quest for self‐knowledge – denial of reality. Sophocles’ vision of man and psychoanalytic concept formation

Zachrisson

2013

The International Journal of Psychoanalysis

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In the Oedipus myth we find a dramatic representation of the child's passionate ties to its parents. In the play Oedipus the King, Sophocles relates the theme of the myth to the question of self-knowledge. This was the predominant reading in German 19th century thinking, and even as a student Freud was fascinated by Oedipus' character - not primarily as the protagonist of an oedipal drama, but as the solver of divine riddles and as an individual striving for self-knowledge. Inspired by Vellacott, Steiner has proposed an alternative reading of Oedipus the King as a play about a cover-up of the truth. The text supports both these arguments. The pivotal theme of the tragedy is Oedipus' conflict between his desire to know himself and his opposing wish to cover up the truth that will bring disaster. It is this complex character of Oedipus and the intensity of his conflict-ridden struggle for self-knowledge that has made the tragedy to a rich source of inspiration for psychoanalytic concept formation and understanding both of emotional and cognitive development up to our own time.

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Aus: Anmerkungen zum Oedipus

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Traditions of Understanding in Psychoanalysis

Traditions of Understanding in Psychoanalysis

The Pagan-Christian Admixture in Romeo Castellucci's Oedipus the Tyrant

Oedipus the King: Quest for self‐knowledge – denial of reality. Sophocles’ vision of man and psychoanalytic concept formation

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