Schmidt-Hellerau Cordelia
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, MA, USA.
Psychoanal Q. 2008 Jul;77(3):719-53. doi: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2008.tb00358.x.
The author rethinks Sophocles' dramas Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus with a special focus on how self- and object-preservative drives are expressed in the protagonist's thoughts, feelings, and actions. What endangered Oedipus' survival at the beginning of his life-the planned infanticide-becomes the disease that later befalls his kingdom and finally culminates in his self-mutilation, which entitles the blinded Oedipus to be cared for by Antigone until he dies. The concept of the lethic phallus demonstrates how trauma and the resultant failure in structuring the lethic energies of the preservative and death drives can result in a specific pathology in which disease is used as a trophy and a means to bind the object in an ongoing caretaker relationship.
作者重新审视了索福克勒斯的戏剧《俄狄浦斯王》和《俄狄浦斯在科洛诺斯》，特别关注自我保护和客体保护驱力如何在主人公的思想、情感和行动中得以体现。在俄狄浦斯生命伊始危及他生存的——那起蓄意的杀婴行为——后来变成降临到他王国的疾病，并最终以他的自我伤害而告终，这使得双目失明的俄狄浦斯有权得到安提戈涅的照料直至去世。死亡阴茎的概念表明，创伤以及由此导致的在构建保护驱力和死亡驱力的死亡能量方面的失败，是如何能够导致一种特定的病理学状况的，在这种状况中，疾病被用作一种战利品以及在持续的照料关系中束缚客体的一种手段。
