... his father. This complex is roundly exhibited in the play 'Oedipus Rex', where Oedipus does end up murdering his birth father and marrying his birth mother, Jocasta. This unconscious desires Freud posits emanates from our dreams. Being driven by fear and desperate to avoid his foretold fate, Oedipus leaves Corinth in the belief that once he is out of the ... 's general attitude towards life includes anger a major component that can be presented as the major cause of his tragic flaw. King Oedipus anger is not deliberate; it stems from the subconscious and his anger is exhibited throu...

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... 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 subconscious's 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? It's all chance, chance ... their sons for the loss. Perhaps they expressed some adolescent sexual feelings for their own mothers for which they were punished. But Oedipus and myself, as we were displaying these desire...

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