Oedipus has a bad rap, and that seems down to Freud. He didn't mean to shag his mum, he was adopted and thought his adopted parents were his real parents, and killing his dad was just a random act of road rage. He hooked up with his mum as a kind of prize for solving the riddle of the sphinx. For years I thought Oedipus killed his dad to get to his mum, but the 2 events had no relation to each other.