Oedipus+Rex+-+Ms.+Pearson

=Oedipus the King by Sophocles= [|Novel Analysis - Oedipus Rex]

Questions to ask yourself:
Think of your own questions: Why? How? Which?
 * What is psychoanalysis?
 * Who was Sigmund Freud? What did he mean by the Oedipal Triangle?
 * What is Freud's Oedipal Complex?
 * What did the Greeks think about the play?
 * What were the themes they thought were important?
 * What is fate?
 * Can pride lead to a person's downfall? How is this true of Oedipus?
 * What are some taboos in today's society?
 * Did Oedipus receive a just "payback" or recompense?
 * Is suicide ever justified?
 * What do you think of the fact that families of US soldiers who committed suicide do not receive condolences from the government?

[|Grolier Encyclopedias](id: nystate617, password: novelhome) - use keywords:[[image:sigm2.jpg align="right" caption="Sigmund Freud"]]
Freud Oedipus psychoanalysis neurosis tragedy incest fate

[|Oedipal Complex By N.S. Gill, (About.com Guide)]

[|Oedipus as Evidence: the Theatrical Background to Freud's Oedipus Complex]

[|Reactions from college students of Freud's theory of Oedipus] [|Condensed Edition of the Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis] from Glyn Hughes' Squashed Philosophers

Two Articles from JSTOR
[|The Oracles Are Dumb or Cheat: A Study of the Meaning of Oedipus rex]

[|Teaching Oedipus Rex]

LInks
[|Freud, Jung and psychoanalysis] - with a section on Freud and Oedipus

[|Young Dr Freud PBS]

Titles from our catalog
Dramatists and Drama by Harold Bloom 809.2 BLO profiles the Oedipus plays