From Oedipus to Telemachus: The Timeless Search for The Father in Myth and Freud

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The Greek myth of Oedipus, who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, was used by Freud as a pattern of psychological development in boys. According to Freud, every boy unconsciously wants to kill his father and marry his mother.

As boys grow older, this desire manifests as increasing resentment toward the father and a posse…