What is the Oedipus plot?

The plot of Oedipus is simply: love heterosexual parents and hate homosexual parents. "King Reavis of Thebes heard the prophecy that his son would kill himself in the future and marry his mother, so he abandoned him in the mountains after giving birth to his son. The child was later picked up and raised by a shepherd. When the king saw it, he felt lovely, so he took him as his adopted son and named him Oedipus. Later, Oedipus really killed his father and married his mother. "

"Freud's Oedipus complex theory originated from Greek mythology and its initial dramatic treatment in Sophocles' Oedipus the King. The story goes that when Oedipus was born, an Oracle pointed out that he would kill his father and marry his mother. After what really happened, Oedipus realized the reason and became blind. Freud therefore expanded a universal psychological drama. In his view, every child's subconscious desire is to have sex with his mother and kill his father. The father threatened to castrate and suppressed this desire, so the child accepted the authority of his father's penis. At the same time, it is also the moment when the subconscious mind is created as the domain of repressed things, and it is also the moment when children enter the society or the language and symbol order as Ragan said.

The Story of Oedipus is one of the narratives that laid the foundation of Freud's psychoanalysis theory, and it is also the source of disputes and disputes. Feminism often (but not always, see Mitchell, 1974) criticizes the gender bias in Oedipus' narrative, rejects the little girl, or thinks that the little girl is a castrated boy, thus experiencing "penis jealousy". Melanie klein and other early Freudian critics distinguished a pre-Oedipus stage and turned to the mother-daughter relationship. Later, French feminists especially tried to transcend the core position of Oedipus complex and its obvious consolidation of patriarchal system, and put forward different scripts. One of them is the concept of maternal space (chora) by Julia Kristeva (1984b), which is quoted from Plato's Mousse: the undifferentiated cave or space where mother and daughter coexist is related to her concept of symbolic world.

Freud quoted the concept of Oedipus complex in other places; For example, his explanation of E.T.A Hoffman's "Sandman" story forms part of his discussion about the incredible, and his sporadic comments on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Along the same line, further analysis of Shakespeare's works appeared in the works of his followers, including Ragan (see Fei Erman,1982; Brooke and widdowson [Editor. ], 1996)。 These reading materials seem to point out the close relationship between psychoanalysis and literary criticism. The mysterious content of literary texts is like the subconscious mind, and its interpretation is like psychoanalysis. More radical meaning is that psychoanalysis itself is an act of narration and storytelling (Brooks, 1994, Bowie, 1987). But if this is the case, then the criticism is the same.