SOPHOCLES' 'OEDIPUS REX' IN RENE GIRARD'S 'VIOLENCE AND THE SACRED'

The article examines the problem of antagonism -how the problem is interpreted in Rene Girard's works (primarily in 'Violence and the Sacred'), in psychoanalytic theory and structuralism, as well as in the book contemporary with 'Violence and the Sacred' - 'Anti-Oedipus' by G. Deleuze and F. Guattari written in the tradition of Marxism. It is shown that the antagonistic conflict can be considered both imaginary (in Girard's work) and fundamental (in the rest of the listed concepts), which has both certain explanatory advantages and causes disadvantages of each of the approaches.