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You're listening to the Parsons Exam in Life, episode 387 part two. We're still discussing Hegel on Spirit. We are up to Section 469, I believe.

I think we've sort of said.

But we haven't given this Oedipus metaphor.

Yeah, here he builds upon this idea of guilt.

That's we were discussing 468 where guilt first comes up.

Here he's going to say these two, we're going to make the unconscious conscious,

but we only do that by producing this other one who has been wronged and is retaliating against us.

So the two laws, the human and the divine law are essentially connected, and carrying out one

sort of activates the other in opposition.

So the agent who has been unconscious of that other side, once they act,

they become conscious of it.

And they become conscious of it in the form of their crime,

in the form of their guilt.

So yeah.

So what's the, remind me of the adipus reference here?

Just that like the realization that Oedipus has done something wrong, the unconscious power

snares the doer in the act. The accomplished deed is a removal of the antithesis between the

knowing self and the actually confronting it and the actuality

confronting it.

The doer cannot deny the crime or his guilt.

Yeah.

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