Editing Psychoanalysis (section)

====From blood disgrace to self-castration====
In the tragedy ''[[Oedipus]]'', to which Freud refers, there occurs no sexual exploitation of a child by its parents or other adults. Sophocles' poetic treatment of this ancient Greek myth is about [[Oedipus]]' own sexual desire addressed to his mother Jocasta – admittedly as an already genitally mature man and without knowing about the close blood relationship, including an not less unconscious patricide – which the woman reciprocates just as unsuspectingly. Freud interprets the passage where Oedipus – after realising his serious violation of the moral-totemic [[incest taboo]]  – pokes out his eyes with the golden needle clasp of his wife's and mother's nightdress (while Jocasta commits suicide) as a manifestation of the same ‘cover-up’ mechanism that he began to uncover in the above-mentioned fantasies. In his eyes, psychoanalysis works in the opposite direction to this mechanism of preconscious self-delusion, by bringing the due to incest taboo have been repressed desires (the ‘id’) back into the realm of inner perception, own conscious thinking.<ref>Freud, Sigmund. 1959 [1925]. "[https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_Autobiographical_Study.pdf An Autobiographical Study]." Pp. 7–74 in [[The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud|''Standard Edition'']] 20, edited by [[James Strachey|J. Strachey]]. London: [[Hogarth Press]]. – via [[University of Pennsylvania]].[http://www.mhweb.org/mpc_course/freud.pdf Transcribed version] via Michigan Mental Health Networker.</ref> This raised the question for Freud of the first origin of moral prohibitions. A field of research that led him deep into the evolutionary and cultural (prä)history of mankind (see Darwin's primal horde; its abolition through patricide and introduction of monogamy in [[Totem and Taboo]]) and which, according to his own information, he had to leave unfinished as an untested hypothesis due to the lack of [[Kasakela chimpanzee community|primate research]].<ref name="Massenpsychologie und Ich-Analyse" /><ref name="Sigmund Freud: Der Mann Moses und d" />