AxS:21 Oedipus modernizes the incest problem (converting incest horror into prohibition(abomination into illegality)). Essentially, modern Oedipus has nothing to do with tabu. It marks thetriumph of command over the ((((...) ur)primal) horror) of implexion. Infinite superiority of the Idea(sovereignty of Law). The real conflict is not between father-son (or even father-mother), but ratheroccurs when a higher paternity (the State) imposes itself upon the concrete maternal-filial bond:monopolization of normativity by Ulterior power.
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