• themoonisacheese
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    9 days ago

    It bothers me that Oedipus wasn’t even aware that she was his mother, and Freud named it that anyway

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      9 days ago

      Ya and if memory serves i think he clawed his own eyes out and committed suicide after finding out.

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        9 days ago

        Obsessed with a mother figure, destiny controlled by a higher authority which withholds the full picture, and he literally kink-shamed himself to death.

        Oedipus was the quintessential Catholic before Catholicism existed.