Article: The split personality of 'Oedipus Complex'.

Byline: Chris Jones

May 10--When Sigmund Freud articulated his Oedipus complex -- wherein a boy feels his first sexual feelings for his mother and hates his father as a rival -- he linked a crucial new concept in psychoanalytic theory with an ancient Greek tragedy. No one before or since did anything quite like that. What other famous social scientist has hung a major advance on a play, for heaven's sake?

So for that reason alone, Frank Galati's decision to stage a production of Sophocles' "Oedipus the King" inside, as it were, the mind and life of Freud is a fascinating notion.

It began as a 2004 assignment from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival ...

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