CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Euripides, Augeas, The Horses
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Freud: instinctive desire of a boy child to express his first sexual desire for the mother and jealousy for the father. I(cid:374) opho(cid:272)les" (cid:448)e(cid:396)sio(cid:374), oedipus is hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) intelligence and exertion. Societal constraints (superego) forbidden the desires to act on the id. Exceptional ability of human being expressed by g(cid:396)eek"s (cid:374)a(cid:373)e oedipus the tyrant. Tyrant: pertains to unjust power (modern meaning); in greek perception of the title neutral term, someone who takes power in a non-hereditary way, but through himself to take the power. Central irony: but he turns out to be a king after all, a hereditary monarch after all: pg. God (cid:862)do(cid:374)"t hold (cid:455)ou as (cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:863): pg. Ideal to figure out the problem in the play. 5th century bc, people began to believe they as human beings can control their own destiny. Aspiration of human beings, the way they exceeded the traditional boundaries of human kind in respect of gods.
