ABSTRACT
The reign of slavery in the British Caribbean and the USA ended in the Nineteenth Century it still continues to affect people internally in this century. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Sigmund Freud, who happened to be Jewish and was himself acquainted with trauma had put together a science of unconscious mental processes which came to be known as psychoanalysis. Freud argued that the Oedipus Complex was universal, but there were various paths to the resolution of it. Using material from his self-analysis, from his patients, and from the play Oedipus Rex, written by Sophocles, the fifth century BC Athenian dramatist, Freud brought together a means of understanding the workings of the mind in a new way. The Oedipus complex is universal, oedipal dramas nevertheless take place within a specific context. According to psychoanalytic theory, the super-ego develops as the Oedipus complex ends.
