Sigmund Freud's theory of the Oedipus complex suggests that children experience a subconscious attraction to the opposite-sex parent and competition with the same-sex parent during early childhood.

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

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Louise Bourgeois did not trust words; this is what numerous articles and essays about the artist will tell you. That fact is also mentioned at “Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter,” a new exhibit at ...

The myth of Oedipus “seizes on a compulsion which everyone recognizes because he has felt traces of it in himself,” wrote Sigmund Freud in an 1897 letter describing his own self-analysis. While some ...

Bold and intellectually stimulating, but also overly literal and dramatically languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean tragedy by inserting Dr. Freud throughout the story, ...