Sigmund Freud is a controversial figure in the history of psychology, and perhaps none of his ideas is more contentious than his theory of the Oedipus complex. Freud believed that humans are sexual ...

Sophocles’s most famous play wasn’t enough for director Frank Galati. In his adaptation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex for the Goodman Theatre, Galati took some significant artistic liberties. Ultimately, ...

The myth of Oedipus “seizes on a compulsion which everyone recognizes because he has felt traces of it in himself,” wrote Sigmund Freud in an 1897 letter describing his own self-analysis. While some ...

Adapted and directed by Frank Galati, this austere yet lyrical production melds Oedipus Rex with excerpts from the writings of Sigmund Freud, who saw in the ancient drama a “compulsion which everyone ...

Please be advised that I am in possession of previously undiscovered secret documents that offer a new perspective on the life of Sigmund Freud. I enclose some samples for your perusal: Originally, ...