HUM-8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Sigmund Freud, Laius, Sophocles
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Given a medallion by his supporters, with his face on one side and oedipus on the other with the quote he who knew the famous riddle and was a most powerful man". Oedipus: destroyed the sphinx-a monstrous woman-lion-bird who was terrorizing the city of thebes. He knew thebes famous riddle, so he was given leadership of thebes by the grateful city, and became a most powerful name". How to account for the power of myth, especially as told in greek tragedies, to move a modern audience. The mind, how it worked and why it sometimes went wrong. Freud believed that humans have unconscious" and subconscious" parts of the mind and that we sometimes repress our sexual desires. Without classical mythology, there would be no psychoanalysis. Freud used classical myths in his writings, but only 3 are discussed at any length: Suggested that the snaky-haired head symbolized female genitalia and men"s fear of them.
