It was the myth of Oedipus that helped Freud to liberate himself from the historical event and to reconstruct the history of desire, of fantasy life. History is an account of the events relating to certain peoples or to humanity in general. Myth is also an account, but it is symbolic, traditional, and constructed of selected events, memories, and screen memories of a people. It has a certain continuity of fantasy which gives structure to the desires of a group. This continuity in fantasy differs from the serial conjunction of events which characterizes history. Myth is on the same level as other unconscious formations, with libidinal value for a people, similar to fantasy, dreams, or delirium. Nonetheless, from Homer to Herodotus to our contemporary historians, there has been an inevitable confusion between myth and history. Nicolaïdis discusses