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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Sophocles's Oedipus Rex. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
The Oedipus Complex: Sigmund Freud used the Oedipus story as an important example in his theory of the unconscious. He believed that "It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father." He referred to these two urges as the "Oedipus complex."