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This 5 page paper analyzes an article by Freud to answer the question "what is the tragedy of destiny?" in regard to Oedipus. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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psychological condition, the Oedipus complex, first described by Freud. This paper analyzes an article by Freud to answer the question "what is the tragedy of destiny" in regard to Oedipus.
Discussion As noted above, Oedipus is the King of Thebes, and he is a good king. But in the play by Sophocles, there is a blight on the land. Freud
reminds us of what happens in the story. Crops dont grow and the animals are dying. Oedipus sends his brother-in-law Creon to the Oracle at Delphi to find out what
to do; and it is here that the play opens. Creon comes back with the answer that the problem is that the murderer of Laius, the former king, is in
the land and must be found. Being the man he is, Oedipus cant rest until he finds the criminal, and so he keeps hunting and prodding and searching for the
truth until, unfortunately, he finds it. He himself is the murderer he seeks. His wife/mother Jocasta hangs herself when she finds out that she has married her son, and he
blinds himself, a dreadful lesson to all who try to avoid the gods. As Freud points out, there is no action in the play in the sense of physical battles
or swordfights, etc. Instead, the action here "consists in nothing other than the process of revealing, with cunning delays and ever-mounting excitement-a process that can be likened to the work
of a psycho-analysis-that Oedipus himself is the murderer of Laius, but further that he is the son of the murdered man and of Jocasta" (Freud, p. 473). When he realizes
what he has done, he "blinds himself and forsakes his home. The oracle has been fulfilled" (Freud, p. 473). One of the lessons we might take from this is that
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