| Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus. |
| An unavenged murder could in extreme cases cause barrenness and crop failure, as in Sophocles ' Oedipus the King. |
| 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. |
| Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him. |
