Freudian Mythologies

More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles'' tragedy the legendary perpetrator of shocking crimes, was an Everyman whose story of incest and parricide represented the fulfilment of universal and long forgotten childhood wishes. The Oedipus complex - child, mother, father - suited the nuclear families of the mid-twentieth century. But a c...