 The article argues that it is no coincidence that some of the greatest works of world literature - including "Oedipus Rex", "Hamlet", as well as "The Brothers Karamazov" – all concern parricide, which in Dostoevsky's case Freud links to his epilepsy.Ernest Jones termed the piece “Freud's last contribution to the psychology of literature and his most brilliant”; Freud himself however called it “this trivial essay.It was written as a favour for someone and written reluctantly”.