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23. Carlo Ginzburg suggests that the foot mutilations Oedipus suffers in the various versions of thelegend may be references to shamanic initiation practices. He also speculates that these may haveconcerned calendrical rituals (the lameness indicating the imbalances necessary for certain calendriccycles to function). It is mutilation that disappears with psychoanalysis, where it is made to operateas a representation of psychical processes. Levi-Strauss makes parallels between shamanism andpsychoanalysis in Structural Anthropology (198-202). Deleuze and Guattari would no doubt stressthe way in which Freud’s neo(anti)shamanism doubly reduces Oedipal mutilation, to metaphor, and tofunction. The question (posed in a number of ways throughout Anti-Oedipus) then becomes: how didthe body construct a theatrical unconscious for which gouging out eyes ‘equals’ castration, andcastration simply subtracts hedonic function?