A-Z: General definitions: Oedipus Rex

Definition

The name of the most famous tragedies of the Greek tragedy writer, Sophocles. Aristotle used the play as the basis for his theory of tragedy, and later, Freud used the term Oedipus complex to describe a type of mother-son relationship after its protagonist, King Oedipus, who kills his father and marries his mother.

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