Jung, Sophocles, and Socrates: Antigone Archetypes

In Sophocles’ Antigone, an illustration regarding the events of the children of Oedipus and Jocasta after the Theban Civil War is elucidated. Their sons, Eteocles and Polynices, both fought in the Theban Civil War and died while quarreling over power of Thebes. During this quarrel, the Thebans generally favored Eteocles; further, Polynices was banished from Thebes, which framed him as an outsider…