When Sigmund Freud articulated his Oedipus complex — wherein a boy feels his first sexual feelings for his mother and hates his father as a rival — he linked a crucial new concept in psychoanalytic ...

Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure in the history of psychology, and perhaps none of his ideas is more contentious than his theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud believed that humans are sexual ...

Bold and intellectually stimulating, but also overly literal and dramatically languid, Frank Galati's "Oedipus Complex" adapts the famed Sophoclean tragedy by inserting Dr. Freud throughout the story, ...

The myth of Oedipus “seizes on a compulsion which everyone recognizes because he has felt traces of it in himself,” wrote Sigmund Freud in an 1897 letter describing his own self-analysis. While some ...

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

Louise Bourgeois did not trust words; this is what numerous articles and essays about the artist will tell you. That fact is also mentioned at “Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter,” a new exhibit at ...

What was life like for the father of psychoanalysis who made a profession of analyzing the lives of others? Insights into how Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis whose work on human sexual ...

Having sexual thoughts about ones mother is the ultimate taboo. An Oedipus complex, as this is called, is the most widely known theories of the most controversial figure in psychology: Sigmund Freud.

Sophocles’s most famous play wasn’t enough for director Frank Galati. In his adaptation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for the Goodman Theatre, Galati took some significant artistic liberties. Ultimately, ...

The power of Oedipus Complex lies in its storytelling: in recounting the events that expose Oedipus’ secret sin, often in extended passages of richly textured choral speaking, the actors deliver the ...