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(Several key words were omitted from Dr. Angel Garma's discussion of Dr. Litman's paper “Sigmund Freud on Suicide” [The Psychoanalytic Forum, Vol. 1, No. 2]. Dr. Garma's final paragraph follows with the correction in italics.)
“Oedipus does not commit suicide, although Jocasta, whom we may consider to be a part of him, does. Oedipus blinded himself, which may be interpreted as partial suicide. Following this reasoning, and as Dr. Litman expresses it, it is very probable that ‘suicidal drama often reproduces not so much guilt for the unconscious wish of the child to murder the parents but rather a reaction of abandonment
on the part of the child to the parents' unconscious wish for the child's death.’ However, in the case of Oedipus, his parents’ filicidal wishes were not unconscious, as were his own parricidal desires; on the contrary, they made a very conscious attempt to carry them out.”
Angel Garma, M.D.
Buenos Aires, Argentina