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Freud S. (1924): The little girl likes to regard herself as what her father loves above all else; but the time comes when she has to endure a harsh punishment from him and she is cast out of her fool's paradise. The boy regards his mother as his own property; but he finds one day that she has transferred her love and solicitude to a new arrival.

-In depth look into the theory behind the Oedipus Complex

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Dorothy W. (1982): .. Jocasta comforts Oedipus-who is not yet

enlightened . . . by an allusion to a dream which is often dreamed, though it cannot, in her

opinion, mean anything:

"For many a man hath seen himself in dreams

His mother's mate, but he who gives no heed

To such like matters bears the easier life." (981-983)

-Relates a quote from Jocasta to the Oedipus Complex

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Freud S. (1924): To an ever-increasing extent the Oedipus complex reveals its importance as the central phenomenon of the sexual period of early childhood.

-Definition of the Oedipus Complex through Freud

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May you never learn who you are! -Jocasta

-Shows that Jocasta knows the truth and does not want Oedipus to learn that he is her son

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Everything that I say I'd for your own good! -Jocosta

-Displays Oedipus and Jocasta's relationship and shows Jocasta's motherly nature towards Oedipus

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Dorothy W. (1982): While Freud was convinced that girls as well as boys experience the Oedipus complex,

his famous theory focuses on the developing male, on a young boy's sexual wishes for his mother her and parricidal impulses towards his father

-Explains Freud's theory of the Oedipus Complex

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Anything that she wants she has from me -Oedipus

-Displays Oedipus showing husband-like qualities and being protective of Jocasta

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Wonderful. But I fear the living woman -Oedipus

-Oedipus admitting his fear of sleeping with his mother, shows that it was not his true intention, rather subconscious

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Have no fear of sleeping with your mother: How many men, in dreams, have lain with their mothers! No reasonable man is troubled by such things -Jocasta

-Jocasta speaking about how "no men would ever think of sleeping with their mothers"

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And yet-must I not fear my mother's bed? -Oedipus

-Oedipus speaking to the prophecy, specifically the part referring to his relationship with his mother

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From now on never think those things again -Jocasta(to Oedipus)

-Displays Jocasta's relationship with Oedipus and how she does no want him to find out the truth

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Dorothy W. (1982): King Oedipus, who slew his father Laius and wedded his

mother Jocasta, is nothing more or less than a wish-fulfillment - the fulfillment of the wish of our

childhood

Relates the Oedipus Complex to Oedipus' actions in the play

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This was the man whom Oedipus, long ago, feared so, fled so, in dread of destroying him-But it was another fate by which he died.
-Jocasta(referring to King Polybus)

- Shows that Jocosta knew of the prophecy and has figured out that Polybus is not Oedipus' actual father