Sigmund Freud’s Oedipus Complex is one of the most controversial yet influential ideas in psychology. It explores the ...

While its relevance in modern psychology has been largely contested, understanding its origins and implications offers valuable insight into the historical development of thought on human desire and ...

Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure in the history of psychology, and perhaps none of his ideas is more contentious than his theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud believed that humans are sexual ...

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 ...

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, ...

This Father's Day it will be almost 75 years since Sigmund Freud’s death. I want us to re-examine the Oedipus Complex. Freud devised the idea that sons want to kill their fathers and have sex with ...

Adapted and directed by Frank Galati, this austere yet lyrical production melds Oedipus Rex with excerpts from the writings of Sigmund Freud, who saw in the ancient drama a “compulsion which everyone ...