Meditations on Oedipus: Becker’s Kafka, Nietzsche’s Metamorphoses  

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Mendelowitz, Ed

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Humanistic Psychology vol. 46 no. 4 (2008), page 385-431.
Topik: Oedipus; individuation; freedom; destiny; Kafka; Nietzsche; self-creation
Fulltext: 385.pdf (250.42KB)

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I approach knowing what they are and what I am, and fearing that I will become them even for a time—and fearing that time could become forever. I am imprisoned by freedom. It is better to settle for the feel of these walls against the palms of my hands, bearing in upon me, than pushing through and not knowing where I may be or where I may end up. But even in this confession there is no peace. Knowing my own human weakness, I am infinitely aware of my own need to press through, my own curiosity to see what lies beyond these surrounding walls, to stride to the destined, whatever it may be: be it life, be it death, be it mystery. I say all this, and then I am back again: wanting to live, wanting to die, wanting freedom and fearing it. In the end, I fear only myself.We are just little pieces of other people. We are just little pieces of our parents, and they are just little pieces of theirs. I wonder if I will ever be happy with the pieces of me that are pieces of them that I will never be rid of.

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