The author's task in her book, Theseus, to which this article is related, is to demonstrate symbiotic role relationships and, unlike Freud, to accent the mother's side of the Oedipal story. Her emphasis is in explicating Heracles and the Centaur with a clarification of Heracles as applied to master-slave relationships in various cultures, primarily in the Greco-Roman and in the American South. The slave becomes powerful, resourceful, and intelligent while the master regresses to an infantile state of brutal but helpless stupidity and terror after he has relied on his slave.