PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Tyrant, Matricide, Oedipus Complex
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In a word, it will not fall short of any folly or shameless deed: foul murder" referred to here is most likely killing the members of one"s own family. There were special laws and penalties for patricide, matricide and fratricide in athens: note: the progression of thought here. Plato cites dreams for evidence about internal psychological forces, and in these dreams he specifically mentions sexual intercourse with the mother and the murder of one"s relatives. Plato is close to uncovering the oedipus complex, anticipating some of the outlines of freud"s later theories. Plato finds such evidence to apply to the so-called normal" person as well (572b) What we want to establish is this: that there is a dangerous, wild, and lawless kind of desire in everyone, even the few of us who appear moderate. There is a way in which his claim here is deeply better candidate for the role than the tyrannical man.
