The Oedipus Complex In Sophocles’ Oedipus, it is evident that Oedipus is portrayed and characterized as someone who has experienced Sigmund Freud’s, “Oedipus Complex.” At some point in the child 's life, they will realize that there is a difference between their mother and father, and it will lead to the child to form an erotic sexual impulse to the parent in the opposite sex, which is what the Oedipus Complex is. In this story, Oedipus is attracted to his mother and grows his first hatred and first murderous wish against the father. From this, Oedipus suffers from the complex because of the prophecy of the oracle told to Oedipus, attachment to his birth mother, and resentment of his birth father.
Oedipus demonstrates Feud’s complex because of the curse that had been placed on him before he was born. The Oedipus Complex is a psychoanalytic theory which explains how at a young age of a child, there is a sexual desire for their parent in the opposite sex. However, this is actually a compelling stage in a normal developing process of a child. Sigmund Freud proposes this idea in his concept of the Interpretation of Dreams. The prophecy told by the Oracle states, “It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse toward our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father,” (The). Oedipus …show more content…
I can tell you, and I will.
Apollo said through his prophet that I was the man
Who should marry his own mother, shed his father 's blood
With his own hands. (Scene III pg 52)
Oedipus is psychoneurotic. He is emotionally conflicted and it is apparent that he suffered from the complex because of the guilt that he had faced that lead him to blinding himself by gouging his own eyes out. Even Choragos says that Oedipus was better off dead than to be alive and blind. CHORAGOS. I do not know how I can answer you.
You were better dead than alive and blind. (ODE IV pg 73)
OEDIPUS. Do not counsel me any more. This
Oedipus demonstrates Feud’s complex because of the curse that had been placed on him before he was born. The Oedipus Complex is a psychoanalytic theory which explains how at a young age of a child, there is a sexual desire for their parent in the opposite sex. However, this is actually a compelling stage in a normal developing process of a child. Sigmund Freud proposes this idea in his concept of the Interpretation of Dreams. The prophecy told by the Oracle states, “It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse toward our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father,” (The). Oedipus …show more content…
I can tell you, and I will.
Apollo said through his prophet that I was the man
Who should marry his own mother, shed his father 's blood
With his own hands. (Scene III pg 52)
Oedipus is psychoneurotic. He is emotionally conflicted and it is apparent that he suffered from the complex because of the guilt that he had faced that lead him to blinding himself by gouging his own eyes out. Even Choragos says that Oedipus was better off dead than to be alive and blind. CHORAGOS. I do not know how I can answer you.
You were better dead than alive and blind. (ODE IV pg 73)
OEDIPUS. Do not counsel me any more. This