The idea of the Oedipus complex

Sophocles' play is built around a problem that Thebes is having: a plague, attributed to the failure to avenge the death its king, Laius. The new king, Oedipus, is determined to find the killer and end the plague. The trouble is, he is the killer, though he has no idea. It was just a difficult man he met on his way to Thebes, where he found fortune and married its widowed queen Jocasta and had two children. The revelations of incest drive Jocasta to suicide, and he is obliged to purify himself, which he does by gouging out his eyes.

What begins as a mission in public policy turns into personal disaster. Almost every word Oedipus speaks is loaded with irony: "I order that no one in this land I rule / give shelter or speak word to the murderer / whoever he be" (36). He continues, warming to his sad and squalid theme:

And now, since I hold the power he once held,

. . .
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