ABSTRACT
Remember Oedipus? In the ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles ( Oedipus Rex), he is the man who unknowingly kills his father, then, by an equally strange set of convoluted circumstances, marries the victim's widow, his own mother. This is why, more than two millennia later, Sigmund Freud, the “father” of psychotherapy, would say that a boy who loved his mother too much had an Oedipus complex. Meanwhile, back at the tragedy, the widow, now wife, after having had four children with Oedipus, discovers the truth and kills herself. Oedipus, upon learning that he had been, until recently, happily married to his now-dead mother, pokes out his own eyes. This isn't called a tragedy for nothing!
