By Sylvia Zwettler-Otte
A global cooperation of psychoanalysts offers the position of symbolization within the improvement of the human brain. in accordance with Freud's thought of the subconscious and of childish sexuality we now have a deeper knowing of myths like Oedipus and the Sphinx and the representations of human struggles in artwork. during this ebook, this is often illustrated from prehistoric work until eventually poetry of the 20 th century. The Sphinx, Read more...
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1972): “Sigmund Freud, Life and Work, Vol. 1: The Young Freud, 1856-1900”, London, The Hogarth Press. Translated by Gina Atkinson 38 The Sphinx as Oedipus’ other Mother1 Rainer Gross Let me start with Wilfred Bion’s thoughts on myth in general and their function for our work: In an undated text “Tower of Babel” Bion suggests a subjective use of myths for psychoanalytic practise: Instead of trying to interpret biblical stories of Genesis and the Tower of Babel or the fate of Oedipus he makes use of them to clarify and interpret his personal problems: This story I do not interpret: I use it to interpret a problem of mine.
Of course this saving from the devouring early mother’s power has a price: The bliss of the symbiotic dyad is lost forever. Nevertheless my associations led me to see the riddle of the Sphinx as an early fable, a precursor of the tale of triangulation – a task to master for every child from ancient Greece till today. Here we see myth as an “earlier mode of thinking” compared to the later development of logic and reason. Freud’s selection of “Oedipus material” In his work and in his letters Freud was used to mention the Sphinx and her riddle as an allegory of danger: He compared Paris to a dangerous Sphinx in a letter to Minna Bernays 1885 and we all know his letter to his fiancée Martha with the image of the Sphinx of Gizeh – gladly foreseeing the problems for his future biographers by his act of burning his papers.
Zepf and F. D. Zepf summed up the psychoanalytic speculations concerning Freud’s selection of mythical oedipal material and came to the conclusion that – in reality as well as in the myth of Oedipus – “the child’s oedipal conflict is the outcome of the unresolved oedipal complexes of the parental figures”. [Zepf & Zepf 2012, p. 176] If Freud had included the prehistory of Oedipus he probably would not have abandoned his theory of seduction – or vice versa. His foreshortening of the myth, his focussing on the contents of Sophocles’ play enabled him to go on from seduction theory to the theory of fantasy, of the unconscious.