El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecían de nombre, y para mencionarles había que señarles con el dedo (García Marquez, Cien años de soledad).

In connection with the myth of Oedipus, Freud wrote: “If Oedipus Rex moves a modern audience no less than it did the contemporary Greek one, the explanation can only be that its effect does not lie in the contrast between destiny and human will, but it is to be looked for in the particular nature of the material on which that contrast is exemplified” (Freud 1899).

In this paper I intend to reflect on certain elements of this myth(1), and to enlist the aid of other disciplines that are different from psychoanalysis, but which help to shed light on the object