/lit/ - Literature

>>10970349
>black guy
whoops. sorry.

>>10970346
it's certainly worth thinking about. in literature it makes sense, but IRL? yeah, maybe not. whatever it is that we call Desire may for the time being involve too many unknowns in terms of subjectivity to be able to nail down too concretely. i agree that it can be a little too cut and dried, but so is oedipus, sometimes.

one thing i wonder about too: why oedipus? why sophocles? you have equally god-tier tragedians on either side of sophocles with equally compelling tragic-poetic visions of what it means to want to be a problem-solving proto-modern Greek. *all* attempts to Regulate The Gods fail. in aeschylus, athena thoughtfully intervenes, and in euripides we see what happens when you try and keep dionysus in a box. but tragedy is more than just a downer, ofc. it's a *cosmic* downer.

modern totalitarianism is, well, a *modernist* response to tragic circumstances. it doesn't have a sense of the outside. it's why someone like oswald spengler is more interesting than any number of fascist intellectuals that he shared weimar with. in crisis or emergency situations, there are always larger forces are at work than those which can be neatly squeezed into an ideology, and where the ideological rubber meets the road is in the apportioning out of sanctioned violence and the need to *pragmatically* resolve situations that are irreducibly philosophical in nature...