Existential "ciphers" of the myth about Oedipus
The article proposes an existential interpretation of the ancient myth of Oedipus by the material of Sophocles’ tragedies. It is shown that the existential situation that determines the fate of Oedipus is the tragedy of the blindness of human knowledge, the conflict of personality and ancestral life, responsibility for unintended sin. The existential law of human existence, “encrypted” in the myth of Oedipus, consists in the inevitable death of" self-deification and metaphysical impostor of man.