HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Laius, Surrealism
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All men want to sleep with their mothers. Before having oedipus, laius is a guest in house of king pelops. Laius does not behave well in the house. We don"t have play that dramatizes this myth surviving in full. If this myth had survived, rather than sophocles oedipus, what would have been different for interpretation freud. Metamorphosis of narcissus by salvador dali (1937) Narcissus was a young man in thebes. He did that but in a perverted. Looked at his reflection in pond and fell in love with himself. Echo was a nymph who fell in love with narcissus. She too loved improperly because when narcissus did not return her love, she continued to be fixated upon him. She fixated upon him to the point where she lost all sense of self, echoing what he would say and not speaking for herself. Narcissus becomes a narcissus flower (gives us etiology of narcissus flower)
