Yeah, that’s the whole point. It’s a subconscious drive.
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themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
It bothers me that Oedipus wasn’t even aware that she was his mother, and Freud named it that anyway
namarupa@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lyre@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Ya and if memory serves i think he clawed his own eyes out and committed suicide after finding out.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 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.