Abstract

LOPES, Anchyses Jobim. Œdipus and his enigmas. Estud. psicanal. [online]. 2015, n.44, pp. 23-36. ISSN 0100-3437.

Œdipus myth and Sophocles tragedy as psychoanalytic paradigm focus. Answer to jungian objection to the psychoanalytical interpretation. Importance of Oedipus myth in classical Greece. Several readings to the sphinx’s riddle. Infantile sexuality, epistemophilic instinct, primeval fantasies. The question ‘what is man’ through Kant’s and Heidegger’s views. The enigm solution through the Borromean knot.

Keywords : Œdipus; Myth; Enigm; Infantile sexuality; Epistemophilic instinct; Primal phnatasies; Finitude; Borromeano; knot.

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