Lectoral - "Oedipus, around a myth unburdened by complexity"

10 Avenue Jehan de Beauce

Sophocles led us into the hero's tragic misfortunes. Freud, for his part, pointed an accusatory finger at every little boy. In literature, the myth unsettles; in psychoanalysis, it overwhelms. In every child’s gaze at his mother, there is the shadow of a man who, hobbling under the weight of his tragic fate, moves with a foot described as swollen or pierced (the meaning of Oedipus in ancient Greek). Truth may seem to leap from the eyes, a reason perhaps to look a little more clearly. With Pierre Bayard, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Henri Bauchau and a few others, if not to demythologize the complex…