Psychoanalytical Approach according to Oedipus Rex

Plot of the story: Oedipus kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother.

According to Freud...

id is the psychic energy/personality/needs to have what he or she wants

Oedipus is crowned king and from keeping that seat he does whatever he can to keep it that way however, from getting to where he is now has brought him to realize that through his journey to reach to this spot he had killed his father.

ego is dealing with reality

When the seer comes to tell Oedipus what he had done (point at which the climax of the story falls)

superego is guidelines for making judgment

Oedipus sees what he has done and takes out his own eye as well as exiling himself since he had promised to do so when finding out who the criminal is for killing former king, Laius.

mother/son relationship:
Jacosta, mother, marries his own son without knowing and has kids.

father/son relationship:
Lauis, father, is killed by his own son

Freud explains that this play relates to the patients he has met before.
For example, Little Hans was scared of horses because thought that the horse would bite of his genital. He wished his father dead and wanted his mother but could not wish this since he loved his father as well.

Freud explains that boy and girl develop their first attachment to their mother and get rid of father.
Freud explains that boys sees girls without a penis and gives up his wish to get rid of father until he finds someone like a mother.
Freud explains that girls sees that they do not have a penis and wishes to have one but can't. Father can only give penis to mother and not to the girl until the girl finds someone like her father.

Like in Oedipus Rex we see how Oedipus marries his own mother. Freud explains that boys and girls develop attachment to their mother. Oedipus unknowingly feels some attachment to Jacosta and marries her/ sees her like a mother. Freud says that boys find someone/ another peer like their mother. Oedipus finds someone like his mother (Jacosta) not even knowing that it is really his mother.

Symbolism:
taking out his own eye:
This shows that even with eyes Oedipus could not even tell his own father and had killed him so what is the point of having eyes...this leads him to think of even poking his eye out. With or without eyes Oedipus was blind the whole time.