While its relevance in modern psychology has been largely contested, understanding its origins and implications offers valuable insight into the historical development of thought on human desire and ...

Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex is one of the towering works of the human imagination; a play that has captivated audiences and readers alike for centuries. In Freud’s hands, the play became an illustration of ...

Incendiary drama has just stepped up a gear now that the National Theatre’s hotly anticipated revival of Sophocles’ Oedipus has arrived on the Olivier stage starring Ralph Fiennes, Clare Higgins and ...

It's easy to see why the ill-fated King Oedipus was a favorite plaything of the gods. Though most people would jump off a bridge once the whole you'll-kill-your-father-and-marry-your-mother prophecy ...