The Oedipus As A Linguistic ProblemAccording To The Lacanian Psychoanalysis

Abstract

This paper examines the Oedipus tragedy, according to Jacques Lacan. Freud read Oedipus according to gender, while Lacan read Oedipus as a linguistic problem. Oedipus is a victim because he does not know his real name.

Oedipus is a false identity, and an unreal father, and accordingly the family structure was not set in accordance with reality. And The child does not desire his mother's body because of sex, but rather wants to return to the field of the real, to the womb, to fullness.

Oedipus put out his eyes, and the researcher wondered, why Oedipus did not kill himself. The reason is clear, that he wants to destroy the imaginary

system, and break the mirror, which seduced him