When Freud was searching for a metaphor to describe children’s shifting attitudes towards their parents as they develop, he settled upon the Greek myth of Oedipus. Most famously depicted in Sophocles’ ...

I don’t care how many people think Freud is a genius — I do not want to have sex with my mom. It’s my mom, for God’s sake. Do you have any idea how gross that sounds? I know about this Oedipus complex ...

The following content is purely satirical and entirely fictional. Several students on campus completing the Humanities (HUM) sequence have recently reported developing psychological symptoms in line ...

Oedipus Rex. The man with the complex. The dude who killed his father and married his mother. Everybody — thanks to Sigmund Freud — knows that story. But what is "Oedipus Rex," the grandaddy of all ...