@article{ref1,
title="A man of achievement - Sophocles' Oedipus",
journal="British journal of psychotherapy",
year="1994",
author="Williams, Meg Harris",
volume="11",
number="2",
pages="232-241",
abstract="This paper traces the psychological implications of Sophocles? treatment of the Oedipus legend, in the light of Bion's concept of?catastrophic change? and Keats's of ?negative capability?. The first-written play, Antigone, concludes with the curse of revenge which falls when the mind-city fails to integrate conflicting emotions. The hero of Oedipus Tyrannos, however, overcomes the mindless pessimism which would deflect him from self-knowledge, by means of a necessary weaning process founded on memories of infancy. Finally, Oedipus at Colonus shows how mental beauty or poetry metamorphoses from the appearance of ugliness and makes ideas transmissible.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0265-9883",
doi="10.1111/j.1752-0118.1994.tb00725.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1994.tb00725.x"
}