>>6344143>>6344092>>6344084>>6344085>Oedipus / mythical themes from antiquityWell I discussed this in the past, but as human beings all our behaviour and comprehension, socialisation and language derives from the formative first words, which invariably tends to be the words between mother / father, parent and child. The basic mechanism of the parent-child relationship is some form of praise/reward vs guilt / shame complex which is the beginning of individual identity and integration/ adjustment into society and the wider world, hence the strong emotional (also behavioural reinforcement vs dependency, learned helplessness / maladaptation) response.
So it doesn't necessarily have to involve the sexual dimension or impulses but I don't think it is really that controversial to point out that the most emotionally intense narratives derive from family and those formative familial relationships, mother father and child etc, you don't really even need to invoke Freudian theory to produce this insight (also, see horror films, and also the gothic horror genre, a lot of the most effective horror stories tend to involve family or "unnatural" variations of family relationships or intruders/outsiders into family etc)
The point about Oedipus and using the MOTHER ARCHETYPE to provoke strong emotions, the MASSIVE FEELINGS is almost a mythic dimension, I think wherever you tend to look (whether cinematically or in literature etc) if there is a highly emotional, high intensity engaging scene or dramatic situation, it tends to involve some variation of this basic mother or father -child relation, albeit often disguised with some mother or father authority substitute character etc
pic related is another random mainstream cinema Oedipus theme emotional scene as example
