Too close for comfort: 30 oedipal animas
Oedipus: But surely I must fear my mother’s bed?
Jocasta: Why should man fear, since chance is all there is for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly. As to your mother’s marriage bed, don’t fear it. Before this, in dreams too, as well as oracles, many a man has lain with his own mother. But he to whom such things are nothing bears his life most easily.
Jocasta: Why should man fear, since chance is all there is for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly. As to your mother’s marriage bed, don’t fear it. Before this, in dreams too, as well as oracles, many a man has lain with his own mother. But he to whom such things are nothing bears his life most easily.
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