In Oedipus Rex, how does Oedipus's question "Who am I?" pertain not only to Oedipus but also to man, or at least to civilized Western man?

I think one way of
analysing this question is thinking about how the status and identity ofchanges throughout the
course of the play. He goes from being a man who is profoundly secure in his identity, or who he
thinks himself to be, to being a character that is fraught with existential angst and deeply
unsure of who he is. We can see this in the way he presents himself at the beginning of the play
and...