Oedipus Rex (1967 film) Jocasta commits suicide. Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalist<br> Won Silver Ribbon<br> Alfredo Bini for Best Producer and Luigi Scaccianoce for Best Production Design<br> 1968 Kinema Junpo Awards<br> Won Best Foreign Language Film<br> 1970 Venice Film Festival<br> Nominated for Golden Lion<br> 1967 Oedipus Rex (1967 film) Oedipus Rex ("Edipo re") is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" written by Sophocles in 428 BC. The film was mainly shot in Morocco. A son is born to a young couple in pre-war Italy. The father, motivated by jealousy, takes
Castration anxiety of the concepts related to penis envy were among his greatest accomplishments. However, these are also his most criticized theories as well—most famously by Karen Horney. Freud derived this term from the Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex". In this tragedy, the main character, Oedipus, kills his father and marries a woman whom he does not know is his mother. Given this irony, Freud used the term Oedipus complex to indicate this unconscious desire. According to Freud, the Oedipus complex relates to a universal wish that a boy has, unknowingly, to have his mother all to himself by the removal of his