In this article, "The scenography of trauma: a 'Copernican' reading of Sophocles' Oedipus the King", by John Fletcher, the idea of looking at the play in an Copernican outlook is stated. The Copernican method states that the position of the Earth as the center of the universe was unjust, and that the fact that the Sun was the center was more plausible. When looking at Oedipus the King in a Copernican viewpoint we see the otherness in both its parental and numinous-daimonic forms. With a Copernican outlook we see that Oedipus and his parents, converting all attempts at resistance or substitution, become the very instruments of their own proliferation.
Work Cited:
Fletcher, John. "The scenography of trauma: a ‘Copernican’ reading of Sophocles' Oedipus the King." Textual Practice 21.1 (2007): 17-41. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 1 Nov. 2010.
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