We all know the story of the birth of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. She sprang from the head of Zeus when she was already a wise adult. Such a birth gave her august parent quite a headache. The coarse and hasty Vulcan acted as midwife. He fell in love with Athena, but was rejected. Athena was chaste. Thus the ancient Greeks seem to be telling us that wisdom may be feminine, but it must remain chaste and eternally faithful to its father. But is this true? Is this still the case?

The intrepid women pioneers who dared cross the threshold of Berggasse 19 set out with Freud in search of unconscious knowledge. Things do not always run smoothly when a captain sails off with his crew towards the unkown. At times the crew will obey, but at others there can be mutinies or reciprocal deception. They immediately came upon a half-submerged rock — the Oedipus Complex, which was an extraordinary mixture of reality and fantasy. The women