The Oedipus complex does not serve to prohibit man from union with his mother; it serves to channel and thence restrict a much deeper and more dangerous desire the mythical Oedipus actually fulfilled at Colonus.
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What the Oedipus complex really forbids is what Oedipus achieved at Colonus: for one to dissolve themelse into the deep of the earth; to be biologically reintegrated in the production process of nature - death.
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