That Oidipous now enjoys the use of his ears to detect his daughters’ approach similarly contradicts the wish he has just expressed to make himself deaf (ll. 1386-9). If the audience faults him for remaining blind, deaf, and insensate to the real issue, this is just as Teiresias predicted when he said, “There’s not a soul who will not soon fault you for just this” (l. 373). It is not Oidipous’s literal self-blinding that proves Teiresias right, but rather his misuse of whatever senses he does have to give and receive false comfort. His blindness and insensitivity are attitudinal; they derive from the excessive importance he gives to the regard in which he is held and to his own feelings. The man of reason is proving to be in fact excessively dependent on the guidance of his emotions. [Md] [Mpei] [Mpea] [Dnp]