A Freudian Reading of Oedipus Rex and Antigone

In Freud's interpretation of civilization and its dissatisfactory edps and antigone, Freud believes that the main cause of human mental conflict lies between identity, self and supergo. The id contains all the human impulse, such as anger, sex, violence. These drivers are projected onto self, which is the source of rational thought. Therefore, many of our conscious ideas are affected by these impulses. In civilized society, many of these obsessive behaviors such as violence and tendency to mate can not be accepted, so a mechanism is needed to control these ideas.

Antigone is a story of conflict and passion. To fully understand this article, you first need to understand the background behind it. Antigone and her sister Ismail is the daughter of Edpsus of the Edephus Dynasty. A lot of things have happened since Edips was exiled, and among the seven stories against Thebes, the two sons of Edps have been fighting for hegemony. Eteocles dominates Thebes, and his brother Polynices gathered troops with anger and anger to fight the city. Both were killed in a subsequent battle

The story of Antigone is immortal in the play "Antigone" by Greek playwright Sophocles (pronounced "SOF - uh - kleez"). It tells the tragic story of this young woman. In Sophocles' early drama, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus unconsciously murdered his father and married his mother Jocasta. When they learned what they were doing, Jocasta told himself, and Oedipus was ashamed of himself. His son Eteocles (pronounced i-TEE-uh-kleez) and Polynices (pronunciation pol-uh-NYE-seez) exiled Oedipus from Thebes and dominated the kingdom

Three Theban plays, or Oedipus cycle, Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Rex or Oedipus Tyrannus), Coloned Oedipus, and Antigone. Although it was not composed in chronological order for 6 years, it was written in the order of Antigone, King Odeep and Queen during the colonial period. Oedipus the King (also called Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Tyrannos in Greek) is often regarded as a masterpiece of Sophocles written in 425 BC. The second part of Theban 's play, but the first one appeared in the internal chronological order of the play, then Colonus' Oedipus and then Antigone. That play was highly valued at the time, and today it was more popular. This is because Sigmund Freud focused on the myth of Oedipus.