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Hercules, after all, is not a tragic hero like Oedipus or Prometheus."
a worm of delight for those who watch, the pitted eyes of Oedipus make our play, worm
Sullivan, for example, is quite sure that Freud was right about repression, resistance, transference, the Oedipus complex, dream interpretation, and (God help us!)
I've never met a psychiatrist clumsy enough to use the words "Oedipal conflict" with a patient, let alone to explain it by invoking Sophocles, but this dumb bit is worth it to watch De Niro blanch, shake his head in disgust at the thought of Oedipus and his mom, and exclaim, "Fuckin' Greece."
The Oedipus story survives, the paper said, "because it embodies the deep human sense that free will is a fragile thing, and no inheritance, however noble, frees one from the mark of sin.