TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - A man of achievement - Sophocles' Oedipus
JO  - British journal of psychotherapy
A1  - Williams, Meg Harris
SP  - 232
EP  - 241
VL  - 11
IS  - 2
N2  - 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 />
LA  - en
SN  - 0265-9883
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0118.1994.tb00725.x
ID  - ref1
ER  -