EDITOR’S NOTE: Judy Bachrach writes for Vanity Fair and is the creator of thecheckoutline.org, an online advice column for friends and relatives of the terminally ill.

Clearly, however, this recent electoral decision hasn’t quite sunk in. Anyway, Hillary has bigger, more philosophical issues on her mind. For instance, the other amazing thing Hillary said on Thursday was that encouraging open warfare and complete chaos during her party’s upcoming convention would be a form of — so help me — “catharsis.” In other words, Hillary wants us all to relive the worst emotional and psychological moments of the campaign she still cannot abandon. That way, she assures us, “We will come out stronger.”

Speaking of Greek drama, here’s a test, girls and boys. Which cathartic ancient Greek play do you think Hillary was referring to, when she decided to wreck Obama’s chances for good and all? Oedipus Rex? (Boy king gouges out his eyes in last act). Antigone? (Woman defies authority and is sentenced to be buried alive. But when her true love decides to share her sad fate, he discovers she’s already lost in the primaries. I mean — not available to celebrate).

What seems to be completely lost in Hillary’s references to classical Greek drama is any precise recollection on the New York senator’s part of what actually happened in these plays to the protagonists. Good, bad, indifferent, everybody loses. No one lives to fight another day, much less experience Hillary’s notion of catharsis. And about 90 percent of the time the cause of all this tragedy is yet another Greek term which Hillary, for some reason, didn’t mention.

Hubris.