When Sigmund Freud articulated his Oedipus complex — wherein a boy feels his first sexual feelings for his mother and hates his father as a rival — he linked a crucial new concept in psychoanalytic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Louise Bourgeois did not trust words; this is what numerous articles and essays about the artist will tell you. That fact is also mentioned at “Louise Bourgeois: Freud’s Daughter,” a new exhibit at ...

In “Oedipus the King,” a plague is decimating ancient Thebes. With AIDS killing off millions in modern Africa, it must have seemed a compelling idea to transfer Sophocles’ timeless tragedy to a small ...

The Darker Face of the Earth — former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove’s first full-length play, a 1994 adaptation of Sophocles‘ Oedipus the King — adds up to so many chips off the old block that it ...

There are four playwrights who represent the theatre of the classical age of Athens: the tragedians Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comic writer Aristophanes. They wrote and presented ...