The word family is just a category to separate people, generally loved and cared for people, from unpleasant and unwelcome people. Oedipus the King has a different vision of the "family". Oedipus followed a prophecy that called for him to kill his father and marry his mother. All of these acts were performed without knowing the prophecy or who the true parents were. The marriage of Oedipus and Jocasta (his mother) results in childbirth, considering his sons as his brothers and his daughters as his sisters, himself being their father and brother. When Oedipus learns of what he has done, he is essentially stunned and disgusted at the same time to the point that he decides to blind himself. I can only assume that this disgust and self-hatred stems from the common acceptance of a family with father, mother and children, not a family with incest. In Deuteronomy 27:22 we read: "Cursed is everyone who lies with his sister, whether she is his father's daughter or