Oedipus Rex and Freud

Oedipus Rex was a story of a boy Oedipus who was destined to kill his father and take his mother as his wife. His parents had visited an oracle prior to his birth and there they found out their fate. The father, King Laius, in desperate attempt to prevent this prophecy from coming true ordered the child to be killed by a herdsmen but he felt pity for the child and gave to him another king. The king raised him as his own and in his older years told him he wasn't his father. Oedipus then began to seek out for his parents and consulted a oracle who told him his destiny. He inadvertently came across his father in his travels and got into a dispute with him and killed him. He then went on to Thebes, his home, and on his way came across a Sphinx who stopped those going to Thebes and made them answer a riddle, those who couldn't answer the riddle were eaten. He answered the riddle correctly and was thanked by all those of Thebes and made King and fulfilled the prophecy in taking his mother's hand in marriage...which is kind of gross. 

But Freud some Oedipus in some of us in his views of the complex relationship between father and son. He believed there was and will always be some sort of animosity towards the father and desire to kill him. He also believed that the love of a mother would grow into a desire to sleep with her. These thoughts are extremely medieval and not something that is desired... or a at least I hope not desired in modern day times. But Freud believed these feelings lied in everybody.