Oedipus

But when I was 18 years old.

There's some weird Oedipus thing going on.

When

I was

Now, it'll surprise you to know that one of the things that made people start to stop and look again at Freud's research was how very few test subjects it was based off of.

So he might have just wanted to talk to a couple of people just right out of the gate and himself that like wanted to do the whole Oedipus thing.

That and he probably exuded that confidence like that's just supreme confidence of a white dude.

Yeah.

The dialogues entitled Cephalion, the Icthias, the Jactov, the Leopard, the people of Athenians, the Republic.

one on moral art, one on wealth, one on love, the Theodorus, the Hypsias, the Aristarchus, one on death, a volume of letters, seven tragedies, the Helen, the Thistis, the Hercules, the Achilles, the Medea, the Chrysippus, and the Oedipus.

But Sosicratus, in the first book of his Successions, and Satyrus in the fourth book of his Lives, both assert that none of all these are the genuine compositions of Diogenes, and Satyrus affirms us that the tragedies are the work of Felicicus, the Argentian, a friend of Diogenes.

But Sotian, in his seventh book, says that these are the only genuine works of Diogenes, a dialogue on virtue, another on the good, another on love the beggar the solomius the leopard the cassander the cephalion and the aristarchus the cespius the ganymede a volume of apothegms and another of letters are all work of there were five persons of the name of diogenes the first a native of apollyona a natural philosopher and the beginning of his treatise on natural philosophy is as follows It appears to me to be well for everyone who commences any kind of philosophical treatise to lay down some undeniable principle to start with.

Alcina, the mother of Hercules, with her fair daughter, afterwards her daughter-in-law, Megara.

There also Ulysses saw Jocasta, the unfortunate mother and wife of Oedipus, who, ignorant of kin, wedded with her son, and when she had discovered the unnatural alliance, for shame and grief hanged herself.

He continued to drag a wretched life above the earth, haunted by the dreadful furies.

There was Leda, the wife of Tindarus, the mother of the beautiful Helen, and of the two brave brothers, Castor and Pollux, who obtained his grace from Jove, that, being dead, they should enjoy life alternately, living in pleasant places under the earth.

time,

Lawrence never mentions the word Oedipus complex.

And, you know, by the time that was written, everyone

knew about it.

You know, this idea, it's very like Russian novel, this idea that you sort of run toward your fate or a Greek tragedy.

I mean, I was talking about Oedipus recently.

I think it was on a smoking diary that's coming out.

And I was like, you know, isn't it fascinating that... you know, Oedipus gets this prophecy that like, you're gonna kill your father and you're gonna have sex with your mother.

And he's like, not me, no way.

And then he's walking through the forest and he's like, well, I'm gonna kill this guy, this stranger.

Looking about in the church, she envied the little children for their sense of dependence and protection.

She knew not, she says, that none could have any father but God, knew not that she was not the only lonely one, the selected Oedipus, the special victim of an iron law.

From this intense and exaggerated self-consciousness, the only escape was in fleeing from self.

She sought to do this, as she had often done, by a long, quick walk, whose fatigue should worry out her anguish and enable her to return home in a state of prayer.

If the shortest distance is from here to there, don't take it.

Remember your Uncle Oedipus.

Captain Anderson chuckled.

Cut your jets, Johnny.