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...Thebes have for some nights been seeing the ghost of Oedipus' father-The Infernal Machine is most brittle and playful in its long, chatty first scene, where Jocasta (June Havoc), all dolled up for a night out, flirts with young soldiers. But already the ghost of King Laius tries to warn of things to come. When in the next scene a cocky, ambitious Oedipus (John Kerr) appears and infatuates the Sphinx, he does not guess her riddle; she tells him the answer. Again there are warnings, but undeterred Oedipus marries
...widely read autobiography of Jim Piersall. the fleet-footed outfielder of the Boston Red Sox, who suffered an emotional collapse five years ago which almost ended his career before it began. Unlikely as it may look from the bleachers, Piersall suffered from what has been called the Laius complex.* Piersall's father (Karl Malden), according to the script, was a wild ball hawk whose wings were clipped by family responsibilities, and who determined to live out his own lost life in the person of his son (Anthony Perkins). In psychological effect, the father murdered the son, and reanimated...
...Laius in the Greek myth was the father of Oedipus. Laius tried to kill his son in infancy, but the boy grew up and killed his father instead...
...Erich Fromm argued the point in a new anthology (The Family: Its Function and Destiny, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen; Harper; $6). According to Fromm, there is no real evidence in the ancient myth that Oedipus was in love with his mother. He murdered his father, King Laius of Thebes, and was later made king; then he married his mother (without knowing their relationship) merely because she went along with the throne...
Slowly, inexorably, the evidence as it piles up points to Oedipus himself-to Oedipus who, foredoomed to commit atrocious crimes, has despite all precautions unknowingly murdered his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. When the last nail of proof is driven solidly home, Oedipus, in an agony of guilt and horror, blinds himself and goes forth, a beggar, to roam the world...