For nearly 100 years and at least in certain prominent psychoanalytic subgroups, the Oedipus complex remained a defining construct that determined a boundary for those within and outside psychoanalysis. The time is ripe for reconsidering its culture-specific and variable nature and its failure inter alia to explain with any degree of cogency ongoing internecine conflict in a community of clinic...

Much current naturalistically inclined philosophy of mind has set up its defining problem in such a way as to echo Frege's puzzle of the informativeness of identity statements.1 To take but one of dozens of examples, Fodor (1987) goes to some pains to ensure that his theory of content will entail that a cognitive token can have the content 'Jocasta' without having the content 'Oedipus' Mother',...

In Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), the chief characters, Antigone, Creon, and Oedipus, become entangled in a complex web of events relating in important ways to both oikos (οἶκος) and polis (πολις), and each character threatens the existence or stability of one of the other (or both) of these spheres, by neglecting or rejecting outright their respective claims, rules and...