Oedipus Complex
The Oedipus Complex is alive in all of us. Until we're willing to admit to that and look at the patterns that are the result of that complex, we will continue to repeat the same patterns in our relationships, over and over again. We're doomed to repeat it. We're doomed to condemn ourselves to the very fate which we are trying to avoid.
Legend of Oedipus
Laius, king of Thebes, was warned by an oracle that his son would slay him. Accordingly, when his wife, Jocasta bore a son, he had the baby exposed on Cithaeron. A shepherd took pity on the infant, who was adopted by King Polybus of Corinth and his wife and was brought up as their son. In early manhood, Oedipus visited Delphi and upon learning that he was fated to kill his father and marry his mother, he resolved never to return to Corinth.
Traveling toward Thebes, he encountered Laius, who provoked a quarrel in which Oedipus killed him. Continuing on his way, Oedipus found Thebes plagued by the Sphinx, who put a riddle to all passersby and destroyed those who could not answer. Oedipus solved the riddle, and the Sphinx killed herself. In reward, he received the throne of Thebes and the hand of the widowed queen, his mother, Jocasta.
They had four children: Eteocles, Polyneices, Antigone, and Ismene. Later, when the truth became known, Jocasta committed suicide, and Oedipus, after blinding himself, went into exile.
Till death do us apart
