The oedipus complex revisited: Oedipus abandoned, oedipus adopted

摘要

The author considers that the Oedipus of Sophocles' drama, who kills his biological father and marries his biological mother, is an illustration of the failure to work through the complex named after him. She draws attention to the contrast between the obscurity that surrounds the hero's adoptive parents and the notoriety of their biological counterparts, arguing that the former are equally important in the universal oedipal fantasy.