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QJM 2004 97(9):635-636; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hch102
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QJM vol. 97 no. 9 © Association of Physicians 2004; all rights reserved.

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Fathers and sons

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Oedipus, as everyone knows, inadvertently murdered his father and had sex with his mother. According to the story, he had not seen his parents since infancy, so he could not recognize the man he killed at the cross-roads, nor the queen whose city he saved from a plague, and whom he then married.

It is hard to know if people nowadays would be more familiar with this story than they are with any other Greek myth, had it not been for Freud. It was Freud—as everyone also knows—who believed that the story of Oedipus encapsulated a struggle . . . [Full Text of this Article]

John Launer


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