2022
On being both Daedalus and Icarus.
From the article Daddy Issues: Freud and Fathers, by Psychotherapist Richard Hughes, 2020.
“Papa, patriarchy and primogeniture loom large in the life and work of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.
In his exploration of psychosexual development, Freud proposed that 'a hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him'. As we know, the ancient Greek myth of Oedipus fitted his hypothesis, and the eponymous 'complex’ cemented his reputation in the field of psychoanalysis and beyond.
Freud believed that each generation has a ‘psychical disposition’ to push back against patriarchal authority, and so I am curious that he never explored another father/son Greek myth, that of Icarus and Daedalus.
Whilst this story is essentially 'Oedipal", it is more about 'flight' than 'fight'.”
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