I don’t care how many people think Freud is a genius — I do not want to have sex with my mom. It’s my mom, for God’s sake. Do you have any idea how gross that sounds? I know about this Oedipus complex ...

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 ...

When Freud was searching for a metaphor to describe children’s shifting attitudes towards their parents as they develop, he settled upon the Greek myth of Oedipus. Most famously depicted in Sophocles’ ...

Sophocles’s most famous play wasn’t enough for director Frank Galati. In his adaptation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for the Goodman Theatre, Galati took some significant artistic liberties. Ultimately, ...

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 ...

The power of Oedipus Complex lies in its storytelling: in recounting the events that expose Oedipus’ secret sin, often in extended passages of richly textured choral speaking, the actors deliver the ...