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A 6 page paper which examines how the so-called Oedipus Complex or a child’s sexual desire for the mother may be the symptoms of family dysfunction, and combines a textual reading with personal observation commentary and expert analysis. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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far too many families are dysfunctional, which as the description implies, have deep-seated problems that prevent them from functioning normally. This was a popular theme for Greek tragedians and
no one depicted it more poignantly than Sophocles back in the fifth century B.C. The popular Greek dramatist could have also been a successful family psychologist as his insightful
play, Oedipus the King, reveals. The work was based on a myth which with Sophocles audiences were well familiar, that of an ill-fated King of Thebes who brings plague
and pestilence to his subjects by unknowingly murdering his biological father (King Laius, the previous ruler of Thebes), marrying his mother (Jocasta or Iocasta) and having four children with her,
sons Polyneices and Eteocles and daughters Antigone and Ismene. However, Sophocles brings an added dimension to the ancient tragedy by introducing the element of family dysfunction into the dramatic
mix. While Oedipus did not realize he had committed both patricide and incest, his disturbing dreams (which were famously analyzed by Sigmund Freud in Interpretation of Dreams, in which
the phrase "Oedipus Complex" was coined) were his subconsciouss way of telling him something was terribly wrong. When Oedipus revealed the content of his disturbing dreams to Jocasta, her
response was, What should a man fear? Its all chance, / chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth / can see a day ahead, grouping through
the dark. / Better to live at random, best we can. / And as for this marriage with your mother -- / have no fear. Many a man before
you, / in his dreams, has shared his mothers bed. / Take such things for shadows, nothing at all -- / Live, Oedipus, / as if theres no tomorrow!1 (1069-1077)
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