Politzer raises the question why Freud never mentioned Sophocles' late tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, the general content of which must have been known to him. His reconstruction of the drama leads to the finale, the transfiguration of Oedipus in the grove of the Eumenides. While tragedy seeks to master the myth, a new, consoling myth is introduced which represents the taboo against the death of Oedipus. Sophocles, the psychologist, abdicates; the analytic drama becomes mythography. Politzer believes that Freud's passing over of Oedipus Coloneus can be derived from the final scene: the psychoanalyst and anti-illusionist must have found the mystical apotheosis of Oedipus unbearable.