Freud discovers this image of the father at the beginning of human culture before the story. He tells the myth of the existence of a wild, semi-animal horde, led by an adult male, a male who enjoys all the women alone and deprives them of their sons. They are deprived of sexual pleasure, plotting to kill the father and assimilate women as a good that we want to possess to enjoy it. But here, once the father was killed, his law is even stronger. Indeed, once the way to women who have been forbidden until then, nothing prevents the slaughter which began with the father, and between the brethren. For then there is brotherly rivalry to take up this place and to exercise power and full sexual enjoyment.

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That's why the father's function is totemise after he's killed, he's dead. This dead father gives us the law in a much more radical way than he does when, alive, he ruled with his brute force. The story of Freud begins with the murder of the father, and this dead father is the founder of a covenant between the people - we will find it later in the God of Monotheism, with Father's Name. That is, the name, the law, the language of the father give birth to the significance which is the meaning of Freud's sexuality, a meaning that is phallic. As soon as we begin to talk about this, there is already a sexual sense, Freud says, it is linked in one way or another to loss, lack. The child is tormented by the disappearance and appearance of the mother, which is not always there. Then the father comes and he is the reason for what seemed to be a pure whim. It is what the mother in fact is interested in, beyond the child. So for the child the symbolic father is already here. There is a triangle from the beginning. From birth, the child asks for the father without whom there is no culture, and as this question is also present in the field of the mother because the child, with birth, fits into the problem and the mother regarding the issue of the phallus, it is related and her fantasy.

The father is not only real and uncertain, symbolic and creator of the culture. He is also imaginary. This is an ideal figure, the strong, the master, the ruler, the omnipotent. Of course, it is desirable that the real father does not identify with this ideal, imaginary, non-existent figure. Because disappointment will be very strong and this can undermine the stances of mental life. But why Oedipus complex? Oedipus comes from the tragedy of the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles Oedipus king. Freud transforms the unfortunate life of the king of Thebes into a model of human destiny, what the ancients called ananke, fatum - a destiny Freud will show to be mentally determined by the unconscious. In mythology, Oedipus is the son of Lai and Yokasta. The orphan of Delphi tells Lai, the king that he does not have to have offspring, he must keep chastity, otherwise he will be killed by his son. But at a time of intense passion, love laughter, Lai co-opens with his wife, Jockasta, violating the ban despite the warning and the danger.

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