ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the madness of Ajax. Ajax is interested in one thing, and one thing alone: being acknowledged to be the strongest. And since he is interested only in one thing, since his life revolves around that one thing, his life is solitary. His thoughts are solitary. However, an absence of people and interests is contrary to the nature of the psyche, which reacts by filling the void. Ajax seemed to have lived a righteous life. And yet in an instant his life is shattered by the gods. Ajax had wanted more than anything else to receive Achilles' weapons as a gift from the Greeks, his own people. Instead, he received his last gift from an enemy, Hector. This is significant and symbolic; Ajax's mind opens up to something and receives a gift only through a relationship of enmity, not through one of friendship or love.
