Freud read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and it immediately determined that the underlying ideas in this drama would become a large part of his studies. ... The psychoanalytical process outlined by Sigmund Freud shows Oedipus as a man driven by the inner workings of his psyche. ... The understanding that Oedipus has unconscious knowledge of his crime is supported by the similarity between the play's narrative and structure and the psychoanalytical process laid down by Sigmund Freud. ... According to Freud, the Oedipus Complex is the desire of a boy to possess his mother and supplant his fat...

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