CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eteocles, Pentheus, Boeotia
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Freud we develop atracion to parent of opposite sex and violence/hatred toward parent of same sex. As we develop sexual feelings, we get sexually atracted to whoever is closest to us. As we become real adults, we don"t naturally have these feelings because we repress them. Oedipus sees the play and it all comes back to him ater being suppressed in his subconscious. Also there is the electra complex helps orestes kill her mother think about it. We subconsciously idenify with the trickster igure across all cultures hermes archetype is universal and subconsciously in the human mind. Always the same underlying hero stories with similar paterns relecing how people think/feel. We, at some point in life, need to go outside our circle and ight obstacles. Someimes we encounter a thing which helps us deal with certain obstacles called a key . Then you return home, as a more powerful igure with a diferent status.
