Oedipus complex ....

Many of us heard about Oedipus complex in the ancient Greek literature, but there is no one knows who is Oedipus and what is his complex?!!

The myth of Oedipus is one of the most famous Greek legends, which has received many studies and literary, drama and other treatments by writers from the East and the West. There are nearly fifty plays about this mythology of western writers from the old and the modern, as well as the Arabs. This legend also appeared in the Greek epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey for the Greek poet Homer. The legend is summarized as follows:

one day the witch of the temple Delphi told the king of the Greek town Teba " Lauis" and his wife the queen "Yukasta" that their son would be born and that he was destined to kill his father and then marry his mother. When the boy was born, the parents decided to get rid of him immediately. Then the king gave an order to his men to leave the child in the desert until he dies. But the boy is released as his man didn't want to kill him and gave the boy to a shepherd from the city of "Corinth".

The shepherd took the baby to the king of the city, "Polypos", who did not have children from his wife "Merope" and raised the child as their son and called it Oedipus.

When the boy grew up and became a young man, some of the boys in the city pointed out that he was not the real son of the king and the queen. Oedipus tried to deny that he had gone to the temple of Delphi to recognize his birth, but was shocked when he heard the prophecy that he would kill his father and then marry his mother. He left his country, where he lived, believing in himself that he was the son of the king and the Queen of "Corinth".

Oedipus reaches a three-way junction, one of which leads to the city of Taiba. He encounters a vehicle with a passenger and his followers. A dispute happens between him and the passenger. Oedipus kills him and kills his followers, but he keeps only one of them alive. Oedipus did not realize then that the passenger whom he killed was his real father.

Oedipus continued the journey to the city of Tiba, and upon arriving at the gates of the city he was surprised by the presence of a mythical creature with a lion body and wings and a woman's head. This creature has sent down a curse on the city, it was not allowed any one to pass only if one answered this puzzle which is:" What is the thing that has a voice and can have four legs or two legs or three?
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Oedipus was asked for a solution to the mystery that no one could answer. Oedipus replied, "Man," as he has four legs when he is a baby crawling, and walking on two legs when he is a man, and in need of a stick to lean on to walk when he is an old man so he has three legs.

Oedipus contributed to the murder of the creature, whose life was dependent on solving the mystery. Then he entered the city, and its people made a celebration for him because he saved them from that creature and removed the curse from the city. They crowned him as king over them and he married the widow of the late King "Yukasta".

The Queen gave birth to two sons and two daughters, and then a new curse was found on the city of Tiba. At that time Oedipus consulted the divination of Delphi and she told him that the cause of the epidemic was a crime that had polluted the city, and that the disaster was being gone by getting rid of the king's killer, "Laius". Oedipus begins to search for the king's murderer, and there are successive events in which developments and surprises emerge during which the follower who survived when Oedipus left him and didn't kill him, and also shows the shepherd who gave Oedipus as a child to the king of Corinth. Here the whole reality appeared and the queen"Yukasta" kills herself and Then Oedipus was ejected from Tiba and was lost in the country until he reached the Colonnas, a suburb of Athens to die there and he was buried by the King of Athens "Tessius".

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