Szophoklész, Freud és Robert Wilson
Sophocles, Freud, and Robert Wilson

The Post-dramatic Journey of the Oedipus Scene

Summary/Abstract: Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is a classical, traditional work that received several important ‘post-dramatic’ reinterpretations. I will interpret two radical re-enactments which depart from traditional dramatic tradition. One was in Sigmund Freud’s oeuvre about the Oedipus complex. Freud sees psychoanalytic therapy as a kind of mise en scène, where therapy creates a theatrical situation and psychoanalysis is born out of the theatre. My connected example is Robert Wilson’s Oedipus Rex. I assume that Wilson is not primarily staging Sophocles’ Oedipus, but rather the Oedipus read (created) by Freud. Wilson’s performance of Oedipus is an unconscious narrative based on associative images, formless music, and a fragmented, disjointed text of the original drama, with a strong semiotic discursivity (in Kristeva’s sense), and a fading symbolic background.

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