In Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), the chief characters, Antigone, Creon, and Oedipus, become entangled in a complex web of events relating in important ways to both oikos (οἶκος) and polis (πολις), and each character threatens the existence or stability of one of the other (or both) of these spheres, by neglecting or rejecting outright their respective claims, rules and...

new thing to contribute. For one thing, Freud's statement of the earlier stages of female sexuality has seemed to many to be untenable. Early vaginal erotism is assumed by Mrs. Klein, and the development of the Oedipus complex in the female child is restated according to clinical findings with which most analysts would now agree. The recognition that to the child the phenomena of psychic realit...

Abstract G. W. F. Hegel sees Oedipus as an epitome of the philosophical quest for self-knowledge. In Hegel's readings Oedipus, latter becomes a distant reflection modern and mature Hegelian self, who consciously takes on this quest. Yet unlike whose search truth about his past is characterized by both metaphorical literal blindness, self knows itself, precisely because it understands its can th...