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 Oedipus goes on to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx, “What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?” Because of a decree, he becomes the king of Thebes and marries the widowed queen Jocasta. Doing the math, Jocasta may only be thirteen to fifteen years older than Oedipus if he was her first child. Jocasta is supposed to be extremely hot, so it is no more far fetched than a younger man marrying a modern day hot-female-actor, singer, dancer, etc. Oedipus goes on to solve the Riddle of the Sphinx, “What has four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the evening?” Because of a decree, he becomes the king of Thebes and marries the widowed queen Jocasta. Doing the math, Jocasta may only be thirteen to fifteen years older than Oedipus if he was her first child. Jocasta is supposed to be extremely hot, so it is no more far fetched than a younger man marrying a modern day hot-female-actor, singer, dancer, etc.
  
-After accusing his brother Creon of bribing Thesias, Jocasta tells himprophecies can be circumvented, describes what happened to Laius' and her first child, and that bandits killed the Laius on the road. At that point Oedipus knows he was the bandits, he killed his bio-father, Laius, and he has been having sex with his own mother. At which point Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus takes the ahir pins from her dead body and gouges his own eyes out.+After accusing his brother Creon of bribing Thesias, Jocasta tells him prophecies can be circumvented, describes what happened to Laius' and her first child, and that bandits killed the Laius on the road. At that point Oedipus knows he was the bandits, he killed his bio-father, Laius, and he has been having sex with his own mother. At which point Jocasta hangs herself and Oedipus takes the ahir pins from her dead body and gouges his own eyes out.
  
 Sigmund Freud made this story famous when he used it as an analogy for men's sexual desires and identity. In a nutshell, Freud is using it to show how many young men rebel against their fathers and want to marry someone like their mothers. Sigmund Freud made this story famous when he used it as an analogy for men's sexual desires and identity. In a nutshell, Freud is using it to show how many young men rebel against their fathers and want to marry someone like their mothers.
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