(September 20, 2015 at 11:15 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(September 20, 2015 at 9:49 pm)MTL Wrote: You mean Electral and creepy.
Oedipus was a male in bed with his mother.
Electra was the girl with her father.
One other thing: I do not recall Electra having sex with her father. Do you have a proper reference for that? Electra plotted with her brother Orestes to murder their mother and stepfather as revenge for their mother and/or stepfather murdering their father (it is "and/or" because there are different versions of the story). But I do not recall an incestuous relationship between Electra and her father Agamemnon. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra
Am I just forgetting some part of the story, or is this quite different from the situation with Oedipus?
I'm not an expert on the details, but I recall some of it:
Oedipus, in mythology, killed his father as was foretold, even though he tried to sidestep this fate,
but when he married his mother, he didn't realize she was his mother.
I know they slept together, they had four or five children, I forget exactly.
I recall that when the truth of their relationship was discovered,
he gouged his eyes out. I think his mother killed herself.
Electra plotted deliberately to kill her mother, in revenge for her father's death.
I don't believe Electra ever actually slept with her father,
but I know her brother was mixed up in it somewhere,
and I think she ended up going mad, or in some sort of poverty or disgrace.
that's all I recall without looking it up. If I'm mistaken, let me know.
I have to go to bed now.