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We can question whether the particular configuration of Freud’s own family made him especially sensitive to Oedipal issues. Twenty years separated Freud’s parents, Amalia and Jacob, the same age difference between Freud and his mother. Freud was his mother’s (but not his father’s) first born and by many accounts had a particularly close and intense relationship with her throughout his whole life. She died at age ninety-five, only nine years before her son died.

In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, the title character unwittingly kills his father and marries his mother; then he gouges out his eyes when he realizes what he has done.