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1 OEDIPUS AND BEYOND : THOUGHTS ON THE MYTH OF ANALYSIS ‘that we must suffer, suffer into truth. We cannot sleep, and drop by drop at the heart the pain of pain remembered comes again and we resist.’ 1 No, this is not a quote from Sopho cles’ Oedipus Tyrannos, as the Greeks called it, Oedipus Rex as the Latinists and Sigmund Freud denominated it, or Oedipus the King , as it is standardly translated into English. Oedipus was for Freud a rich literary geological lode in which he could focus, by projection, the tormenting and turbulent early childhood fantasies of his own troubled unconscious, and from which he extrapolated a general principle of his psychology which eventually became elevated and enshrined as a do gma of psychoanalysis: the Oedipus complex. And let me say that after a quarter of a century of professional practice I would affirm that for me the Oedipus complex, with its attendant female version which Jung named the Electra complex 2 , is, in its looser and wider manifestation, so psychologically significant and ramifying, interpretable at the levels of personal (that is, intrapsychic), familial, and collective/cultural, that I would term it ‘archetypal.’ It is probably Freud’s greatest discovery; for him it was what he called the core complex in analysis. But no, the quote is not from Soph ocles. Let me read it again. [Read] For me, it is the quote from ancient Greek drama that best epitomises the body of an analysis. And it predates Sophocles. The celebration of the rites of the god Dionysus – god of wine and unbridled passions, and at a deeper level, the ‘spirit of human culture…the tragic 1 Agamemno n, in Aeschylus, The Oresteia, translated Robert Fagles. London: Wildwood House, 1976, p. 179-82. 2 CW 4, par. 347.

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