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...Jerry Aline Flieger Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Jerry Aline Flieger Overdetermined Oedipus: Mommy, Daddy, and Me as Desiring-Machine There is only desire and the social, and nothing else. Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus R>r all its pathfinding brilliance...

...’ Oedipus Rex , which was taken up again several times in the 1970s and 1980s. Truth is always analysed here as an essential function to govern the self and others by telling the truth, and this function is accomplished, according to Foucault, through the ‘game of halves’ that he discovers in Sophocles...

...R. Morton Smith Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 Unnecessary Oedipus Doubts on the Value of Rebellion R. Morton Smith Today Oedipus might be allegorized as the grandson of Jeremiah, who can deplore but neither sympathize with nor correct the way­ wardness of his descendants...

...Alberto Toscano Foucault returned to the text of Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannos at various critical junctures in his thought. This article homes in on the place of that tragedy in the passage from the analytic of knowledge-power to the problematization of government by truth that took place around...

... questions frame the con­ cept of home considered as both a destination and a scene of domestic life in Greek epic and tragedy, with Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus constituting an exemplary case. Homecoming in the Epic. The heroes of Homer s Iliad are defined by their presence on the plains of Troy...

..., the function of narrative with respect to scene. Beginning with passages from works by two modern theoreticians oftheater, Walter Benjamin and Antonin Artaud, as a context, the question of domesticity and theatricality is then reexamined by reread­ ing Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus. In his writings on epic...

...Loring Baker Walton Copyright © 1956 by Duke University Press 1956 Page missing from archival source 124 The South Atlantic Quarterly of tragic tone. Hence, as Mr. Falk examines the five plays he studies the element of renunciation. Oedipus the King is analyzed in terms of the many...

...-machines, which has never depended on any human technological innovation. The misleading picture of Richard Lindner s Boy with Machine as the frontispiece to Anti-Oedipus notwith­ standing, all living entities (and few things are not alive in Deleuze s uni­ verse) have always been at once machinic...

... times they affirm that Freud acknowledged the sexuality of children only to take it away by insisting that it must be straitjacketed by being pro- cessed through the Oedipus complex. In making that claim, I mean to point...

... is the predominance of economic value over linguistic value. Contrasting capitalism with other social formations in Anti-Oedipus, De­ leuze and Guattari discuss the dominance of economic value in terms of axiomatization. Organized on the basis of directly interpersonal (that is to say, political) relations by means...

..., in which Oedipus (or King Lear, to take another exemplary case) finds himself after the fall, when his symbolic destiny has been fulfilled, is for Lacan beyond the Law. In his reading of the Oedipus myth, the early Lacan was already focusing on what the standard version of the Oedipus complex leaves out...

... dimension is more readily, though not universally, acknowledged) poses a political threat to Creon in several ways, perhaps not least in who she is. Descended from kings (Laius and Oedipus) and the sister of the king who has just died, Antigone is also betrothed to Haemon, one of the Spartoi (Thebes s most...

...-century attempts to reground tragedy on something like its traditional political basis is Hardy s The Mayor of Casterbridge. Formalist critics of the novel have readily seized upon those sets of parallels which Hardy developed between his hero and characters such as Oedipus, Lear, and Mac­ beth. Treating...

... Guattari Félix (1972) 2009 . Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia , translated by Hurley Robert Seem Mark Lane Helen R. . New York : Penguin . Deleuze Gilles Guattari Félix . (1980) 1987 . A Thousand Plateaus , translated by Massumi Brian . Minneapolis...

... and the Nietzschean superman: I ll always be greater than my fate, whate er it be. This is no longer the reprehensible hubris of Oedipus, calling for the wrath of the Gods; as a sentiment, it is dangerous socially or politically rather than religiously, since it defies society rather than the Gods. Alfieri s...

... it is probably the most famous play in the history of Western drama. It is called Oedipus Rex. I trust that it will be granted that the comparison of Wilde s play to Sophocles is sufficiently improbable. Certainly the plots are not absolutely identical. Wilde has taken considerable care about this. In the Greek...

... be to accept this apparently outright rejection of the operative query, such a gesture would be tantamount to falling into what Foucault, in his preface to Anti-Oedipus, calls one of the main traps of the Deleuze/Guattari enterprise, its humor: so many invitations to let oneself be put out, to take one s...

... them to be experienced; by their statuary, that they liked them plump. Perhaps at no remote time Jocasta may have won the Panhellenic Bathing Beauty Contest instituted by the Judgment of Paris. At any rate, the proffered reward turned the trick. A mountain boy named Oedipus blew in, squared up against...

... is prime among them. The poet, Muriel Rukeyser, writes: Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the roads. He smelled a familiar smell. It was the sphinx. Oedipus said, 1 want to ask one question. Why didn t 1 recognize my mother? You gave the wrong answer, said the Sphinx. But that was what...

..., turning on the reappearance of this tension within capital itself as the two functions of money. The final discussion on the Oedipus complex happens to interest me much less, but it posits a spe­ cific and unique form of representation and the production and function of images in axiomatic society...