| Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him. |
| This was to become the personal basis for his theory of the Oedipus complex. |
| The Oedipus complex is the psychoanalytic term everyone knows, and the ideas behind it were first mooted in 1899's The Interpretation of Dreams. |
| Jung also argued that the Oedipus complex was not the universal phenomenon that Freud declared it to be. |
| The story of Oedipus begins north of ancient Athens, in the kingdom of Thebes where King Laius and his wife, Jocasta, had a son. |
| In this paper 1 shall discuss only King Oedipus, the key play in Sophocles' trilogy. |
