“Call Me Kakolookiyam”: Oedipal Fantasy in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Hiranya Mukherjee The narrative of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (Ubisoft Montreal, 2003) can beread as an allegory of the Freudian Oedipal fantasy and the subsequent failure of the infant subject in realizing it. In the beginning of the game, the Prince remarks that: Many men that day sought to win honor andContinue reading ““Call Me Kakolookiyam”: Oedipal Fantasy in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”