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An international cooperation of psychoanalysts presents the role of
symbolization in the development of the human mind. Based on
Freud's theory of the Unconscious and of infantile sexuality we
have now a deeper understanding of myths like Oedipus and the
Sphinx and the representations of human struggles in art. In this
book, this is illustrated from prehistoric paintings until poetry
of the 20th century. The Sphinx, half animal, half human,
represents the elaborations of sexual fantasies revealing desires
and fears. She symbolizes an archaic maternal imago, seductive and
threatening, omnipotent and enigmatic. She is a symbol of
contradictions like drive and reason or gain and loss of knowledge.
Case stories show that patients today feel not "devoured by the
Sphinx", but by their work ("burn out"), by annihilation anxiety,
narcissistic or borderline disturbances, psychosomatic problems
etc. But the "archaic mother never dies".
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