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My Oedipus Complex Frank O’ Connor p.342 OConnors early life was marked by his fathers alcoholism, debt, and ill-treatment of his mother. OConnors childhood was shaped in part by his mother, who supplied much of the familys income because his father was unable to keep steady employment due to his drunkenness. Oedipus(swollen foot) Tragic king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, who was left to die by his father with a spear through his foot, since an oracle had said Oedipus would kill him. The baby was found by a shepherd, who named him and gave him to be adopted by the king Polybus of Corinth.  When it was prophesized that Oedipus would kill his father, he left, not knowing Polypus was not his real parent. As Oedipus traveled, he came to Davlia, where three roads crossed each other. Here he encountered a chariot driven by his birth-father, King Laius. They fought over who had the right to go first and Oedipus killed Laius in self defense, unwittingly fulfilling part of the prophecy. On his way towards Thebes he met the Sphinx, a creatures who would only let the person who could solve its riddle live. The question was: what begins with four legs, lives with two and dies with three. The wise Oedipus answered: man, for he is born crawling, lives walking and dies with a cane in his hand. Then he killed the monster.  As a reward for killing the Sphinx Oedipus married Queen Jocasta, neither of them knowing who he really was. On discovering who he really was, Oedipus tore out his eyes, cursed himself and his sons and left Thebes with Antigone, and Jocasta committed suicide.  when Freud spoke of the Oedipus complex, he meant the sons secret wish to kill his father and marry his mother. In the beginning, the young boy displays signs of excitement and satisfaction when his father arrives unexpectedly on his visits from the war. His pleasant musty smell and Santa Claus entrances and exits interest him. As long as his daily routines with his mother are unin