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Calypso's island is presented as Odysseus' imprisonment in sensual captivity: he is kept by a goddess and cries on the beach until the gods order him sent home.
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Calypso's island is presented as Odysseus' imprisonment in sensual captivity: he is kept by a goddess and cries on the beach until the gods order him sent home.
Calypso offers Odysseus immortal captivity, but Jiang reads Odysseus as needing to refuse immortality because home is necessary for repair.
The quoted Odyssey passages present Odysseus as an unwilling lover by night and a grieving, homeward-looking man by day.
Odysseus' PTSD appears as shame and avoidance: he is stuck with Calypso, crying on the beach, unable to go home because he cannot face his family.
"...sex toy. Okay? Literally a sex toy of a goddess named Calypso. All right? So, basically, he's getting whipped every day at night. And..."
"...question then is why? What happened to him? All right? So, Calypso says to Odysseus, you know what? It's been great having a sex..."
"The queenly nymph sought out the great Odysseus, the commands of Zeus still ringing in her ears, and found him there on the headland,..."
"In the night true, he'd sleep with her in the arching cave. He had no choice, unwilling lover alongside lover all too willing. But..."
"...lost at sea and he becomes like a sex slave called Calypso who's trapped him. And he's basically like a sex slave. Okay? And..."
"...in the Odyssey, where Odysseus had an opportunity to stay with Calypso. And live forever. But he chooses to return to Penelope."
"...away for 20 years, and he's stuck on an island with Calypso. All right, Penelope is depressed and sitting by herself in the room...."
"So, it's Hermes. Okay? So, Hermes has told Calypso, you have to let this guy go."
"...bring the family back together again. So she goes and tells Calypso, hey, you've had your fun, but you have to let Odysseus go,..."
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