Oedipus Plays of Sophocles : Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus,
Antigone ~ performed at Thebes and Eleusis, quite a long time before
Freud! (ok - it is mother/son incest, not father/daughter incest, but
doesn't one concept imply the other?)
I guess I am claiming that the concept can exist before "social
science" itself exists, and that there can (should) be "truth" in
theater/drama...
The role of, power of, women in classic Greece is presently hotly
debated by that community of scholars. Not that we have any
surviving plays authored by women...
Tony
>From: dchodges who-is-at interchange.ubc.ca (Diane HODGES)
>Reply-To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: Re: sexuality
>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:14:36 -0800
>
>At 0:07 4/15/99, Bruce Robinson wrote:
>>>
>>>- actually Freud said as much, that everyone is basically bisexual,
>>>sexuality moves on a continuum,
>>> and society
>>>pushes people to choose. indeed, Freud was one of the first to say
that
>>>society is fucked up, therefore we are.
>>>diane
>>
>>
>>Is that what he said?? If so, he was certainly not the first to say
it.
>>
>>Bruce
>
>one of the first to identify heterosexuality as a social construct;
>and certainly the first to identify father-daughter incest as an
>aberration of heterosexuality;
>
>admittedly, he was baffled by lesbianism, but - well, like Katherine
>Brown noted, as soon as women start getting involved, the men move
on to
>some other domain.
>
>is there someone you are thinking of who was the 'first' to identify
>heterosexuality as social?
>diane
>
>
>
>
> When she walks,
> the revolution's coming.
> In her hips, there's revolution.
> When she talks, I hear revolution.
> In her kiss, I taste the revolution.
> (poem by Kathleen Hanna: Riot Grrl)
>******************************************
> diane celia hodges
> university of british columbia
>centre for the study of curriculum and knowledge
> vancouver, british columbia, canada
>
>
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