• @[email protected]
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    683 days ago

    It bothers me that Oedipus wasn’t even aware that she was his mother, and Freud named it that anyway

    • @[email protected]
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      343 days ago

      Ya and if memory serves i think he clawed his own eyes out and committed suicide after finding out.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        122 days ago

        Obsessed with a mother figure, destiny controlled by a higher authority which withholds the full picture, and he literally kink-shamed himself to death.

        Oedipus was the quintessential Catholic before Catholicism existed.

    • @namarupa
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      112 days ago

      Yeah, that’s the whole point. It’s a subconscious drive.