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1 On Oedipus and the Wink(l)ing of his eye Efimia D. Karakantza Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity University of Patras, Greece

2 Human intelligence

3 humanistic moralistic deterministic artistic interpretations

4 Oedipus complex Freudian approach

5 structuralism Lévi-Strauss

6 Kadmos goes off to find his sister Kadmos kills the chthonic dragon Labdakos is lame (?) Laios is deficient on its left side Oidipous marries his mother Oidipous kills his father Oidipous kills the Sphinx Oidipous swollen feet Antigone buries her brother despite Kreons prohibition Eteokles and Polyneikes kill each other Column I: (Over)Emphasis on blood relatives Column II: Negation of blood relatives Column III: Negation of autochthony Column IV: Man is rooted in mother earth like a plant Lévi-Strauss analysis of Oidipous myth Paradeigmatic or diachronic axis Syntagmatic or synchronic axis

7 pharmakos myth/ritual approach René Girard pharmakos

8 Lacan Father authoritative voice law order telos

9 seductive voice confusion randomness fortuitous Lacan Mother

10 narratology Narratives of origin and movement

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