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Quotation from The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
“King Oedipus, who has struck his father Laius dead and has married his mother Jocasta, is nothing but the realised wish of our childhood”
The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter V, typical dreams of the death of beloved persons, trans. A. A. Brill (1913)
The first published statement of what Freud later called the Oedipus complex.
Citation: "King Oedipus, who has struck his father Laius dead and has married his mother Jocasta, is nothing but the realised wish of our childhood" — Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Chapter V, typical dreams of the death of beloved persons, trans. A. A. Brill (1913). (id the-interpretation-of-dreams-q7)
Portrait: Sigmund Freud, by Max Halberstadt (cropped), Max Halberstadt, Public domain.
