ABSTRACT Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus, produced during the plague years in Athens, tells the story of a king discovering that he has caused the plague on his city by unconsciously re-enacting ancestral crimes. This paper uses the myth of Oedipus to explore the question: how has the “king,” ruling principle of our age, led us into our current crisis in which a pandemic is unfolding? This paper traces the historical context of the Oedipus myth as a quintessential expression of the tragic paradoxes of consciousness and unconsciousness in what Jung called the Age of the Son and Greek cosmogonies called the Age of Zeus. This paper extends an earlier paper exploring Orphic cosmogonies as archetypal expressions of the revolution of consciousness occurring in this age, attended by the evolution of hemispheric lateralization in our brains and the dominance of the left hemisphere, spurred by literacy. The archetype of Oedipus chose Freud, who acted out the myth in abandoning his “seduction theory,” and rendered the reality of ancestral crimes unfolding in childhood trauma to an abstract theory based in literal biology. However, Freud also unmasked the fiction of the ego’s centrality in the psyche and established the reality of the unconscious. Psychoanalysis reopened the ancient Theater of Dionysos, a sacred rite of catharsis that transforms trauma into healing self-knowledge and reconnection in a divine cosmos, the unus mundus. Jung’s journey as recorded in The Red Book and Oedipus’s in Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus show us the hero/ego as initiate, contrasted with Freud’s hero/ego as dragon slayer; they offer us a path into a new age. This new age is hinted at in the Orphic cosmogony, described by Jerome Bernstein as an evolving “borderland” consciousness, and is expressed by Jung as the Age of the Holy Spirit.

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重温俄狄浦斯

摘要 索福克勒斯 (Sophocles) 的《俄狄浦斯·泰拉努斯》(Oedipus Tyrannus) 创作于雅典瘟疫年间，讲述了一位国王发现自己无意中重演祖先罪行而在他的城市造成瘟疫的故事。本文使用俄狄浦斯神话来探讨这个问题：作为我们这个时代的统治原则的“国王”是如何将我们带入当前正在爆发流行病的危机中的？本文追溯了俄狄浦斯神话的历史背景，将其作为荣格所谓的“儿子时代”和希腊“宇宙演化论”中的宙斯时代中意识和无意识的悲剧悖论的典型表达。这篇论文扩展了一篇早期的论文，探讨了 Orphic cosmogonies 作为这个时代发生的意识革命的原型表达，伴随着我们大脑中半球偏侧化的演变和左半球的主导地位，在识字的刺激下。俄狄浦斯的原型选择了弗洛伊德，弗洛伊德摒弃了他的“诱惑理论”，演绎了神话，并将童年创伤中发生的祖先犯罪的现实呈现为基于字面生物学的抽象理论。然而，弗洛伊德也揭露了自我在心理中的中心地位的虚构，并确立了无意识的现实。精神分析重新开放了古老的狄俄尼索斯剧院，这是一种神圣的宣泄仪式，它将创伤转化为治愈性的自我认识和在神圣的宇宙中重新连接，unus mundus。荣格在《红皮书》中的旅程和索福克勒斯在科洛纳斯的俄狄浦斯中的俄狄浦斯之旅向我们展示了作为起始的英雄/自我，与弗洛伊德作为屠龙者的英雄/自我形成对比；它们为我们提供了一条通往新时代的道路。这个新时代在 Orphic 宇宙起源中得到暗示，杰罗姆·伯恩斯坦将其描述为一个不断发展的“边缘”意识，并被荣格表示为圣灵时代。