Edip (Oedipus) is a name that, thanks to Sigmund Freud, I associate with the word complex all my life.
I did not study literature and was never drawn to reading Greek tragedies.
And I did not practice medicine or psychoanalysis...
Simply, I believed Sigmund Freud, who took a name from Greek literature and associated it with a syndrome.
He took the name of a literary character, whom fate itself made what Freud's theory writes about.
A syndrome or rather a disease.
The disease of addiction and physical attraction of a child to a parent of the opposite sex and at the same time hatred towards the other parent of the same sex.
And then I came to a situation where I heard something more about that name.
When I hear about a new play at one of my favorite theaters, the first thing I do is look at the audience comments. After that, I track the amount of tickets sold and when, a few months after the premiere, I don't come across any negative comments, and at the theater box office all the tickets are sold out, I conclude that the play is worth seeing.
The play Oedipus at the Yugoslav Drama Theater, with Milan Marić and Nataša Ninković in the lead roles, after deciding that it should be seen, has been on my mind for several months.
At the beginning of April, I bought the tickets.
The crowd in the hall of the theater promised great interest.
The theater hall was packed. We took our seats on the balcony and were ready to perform...
Have you read Oedipus, the work that was first performed as a theater piece in 429 BC, written by the Greek poet Sophocles?
I'm sorry I didn't.
And I'm sorry that I believed Sigmund all my life, who, in my opinion, desecrated the name of a character from Greek tragedies, associating him with the terms of illness.
Because judging by the story of the play, which absolutely follows the original story, except for the director's freedom and adaptation to the new times, Oedipus was anything but sick.
The fate that befell him, him and his mother/wife, played with their lives and from orphans, made him a king and an emperor, and in the end, an unfortunate exiled from this world.
I won't write you a summary of the work, maybe some of you will be interested and read it (after watching the play, I read the retold work in detail, it seems like a good story for a serious drama, action, thriller), I'll just say one thing: "Justice for Oedipus! Sigmund , you were wrong".