La trace d'un crime si vieux : UNE ETUDE DU MEUrTRE DU PERE

TLDR: In this paper, the authors propose a reading of three fundamental elements of the oedipus complex: the triple origin, the mythical, the literary and the psycoanalitriple origin, which is first taken up by the complementary definitions of human sciences.

Abstract: The murder of the father, together with incest, is one of the two unconscious components of the oedipus complex. When discovering the structure, sigmund freud associated it at once with two literary texts : sophocles' oedipus tyrannus and william shakespeare's hamlet. He later gave a literary from to the murder of the father in his last book, his " historical novel " caffed the man moses and the monotheistic religion. Each of these three texts has a mythical substratum : the murder of the the father was already there in the grecian myth of oedipus, the danish myth of hamlet and the freudian myth of the origins, the myth of the murder of ther father of the horde. The trace of such an old crime constitutes an attempt to describe and to analyse the murder of the father around that triple origin, the mythical, the literary and the psycoanalitriple origin, the mythical, the literary and the psycoanalithe concept is first taken up by the complementary definitions of human sciences. It is then described in its historical men -tal, religious, political and artistical manifestations at the three times when oedipus tyrannus, hamlet and the man moses were written. Its is at last spotted, described and commented on in each of the three texts. It is then analysed in the spirit of a con35stant comparison between the scientific definitions achieved and the literary expressions. The result of the processes is a better knowing of an important concept of contemporay reflection. Together with an approach of the thinking of sophocles, shakespeare and freud about that issue, the study also proposes a reading of three fundamental