Blue Apple
Senior Member
Persian (Iran)
Does "upon wasting away Narcissus is transformed into a flower" mean:
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1. Narcissus because of his mistake (his mistake of inviting Apollo to rivalry) is transformed into a flower
or
2. Narcissus because of his failure (his losing in rivalry with Apollo) is transformed into a flower?
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Apollo sentenced Marsyas to be suspended upside down from a tree and flayed as punishment for challenging Apollo’s musical prowess. Marsyas’s blood flows and transforms into a crystal-clear river that regenerates the surrounding land, its rushing creating a music that continues to rival Apollo’s, albeit in transformed guise. It is also the case that the myth of Narcissus, taken to be negative by both Freud and Lacan, also involves mutation, in that upon wasting away Narcissus is transformed into a flower (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).
