Истолкование Эдипа: история истины и истина желания

Abstract

The article examines the “interpretations of Oedipus” in the philosophical and humanitarian tradition as a paradoxical place of coincidence and non-coincidence, distinction and non-distinction between freedom and necessity, subject and structure, symbol and history, a place in which the question of the whereabouts of the questioner is raised. This place is defined by the poles of desire, knowledge, truth and power. Modern man first of all remembers Oedipus as a subject and a kind of name of desire. Through the analysis of several selected texts, we tried to see how the position of Oedipus is structured as the subject of truth, the parent and at the same time the offspring of which he is. Oedipus is interpreted as a bearer of lack (knowledge, self-awareness, etc.) and he also turns into a bearer of excess. Oedipus, who solved the riddle of man, appears as the paradigmatic bearer of human destiny and at the same time an exceptional and excluded creator of excess. He is cursed by the gods and chosen by them. Ambivalence, deployment to opposite possibilities and even the simultaneous realization of opposite possibilities create the place of Oedipus. This is the point at which a person finds his own history. The beginning of Oedipus is his end, his death is a new birth. The interpretation of Oedipus in modern times is based on the connection between subjectivity, sovereignty and transgression.