Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles play, parricide the killing of a parent or another close relative has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide, for much of the twentieth and twenty-first century, has been framed as an adolescent phenomenon, with child abuse proffered as the overriding cause related to the killing of parents. Respect, Defense, and Self-Identity provides a new way of understanding parricides by analyzing the behavior of offenders and victims at the scene...
Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles play, parricide the killing of a parent or another close relative...