... 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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