{"id":3937,"date":"2009-10-13T07:13:34","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T11:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=3937"},"modified":"2009-10-13T07:13:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T11:13:34","slug":"still-more-oedipal-archetypes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/13\/still-more-oedipal-archetypes\/","title":{"rendered":"Still More Oedipal Archetypes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3938\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/crying.jpg\" alt=\"crying\" width=\"311\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/crying.jpg 311w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/10\/crying-196x300.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From Peter Yan: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Forgive me <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2009\/10\/09\/re-frye-and-spielberg-and-oedipus-rex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russell<\/a> for one more Oedipal reference to Greek Mythology itself. The Father killing Son and vice-versa begins in the Creation Myths where Cronus kills Uranus, Zeus threatens Cronus, and Prometheus is tortured by Zeus for giving fire to his creation, Man. Moreover, Frye tells us that the myth of the crucifixion means anyone who says they are God will be killed, as no society can bear a perfect being.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>From Bob Denham: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then there\u2019s Thomas Pynchon\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crying_of_Lot_49\" target=\"_blank\">The Crying of Lot 49<\/a><\/em>, which Frye refers to thrice in his writing, though not with an eye toward the Oedipus parallels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Peter Yan: Forgive me Russell for one more Oedipal reference to Greek Mythology itself. The Father killing Son and vice-versa begins in the Creation Myths where Cronus kills Uranus, Zeus threatens Cronus, and Prometheus is tortured by Zeus for giving fire to his creation, Man. Moreover, Frye tells us that the myth of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archetype","category-cosmology"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Still More Oedipal Archetypes - The Educated Imagination<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/10\/13\/still-more-oedipal-archetypes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Still More Oedipal Archetypes - The Educated Imagination\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Peter Yan: Forgive me Russell for one more Oedipal reference to Greek Mythology itself. 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