ABSTRACT
The man from the country dreaded the consequences of his desire and understood that Narcissus was not self-sufficient by choice but by necessity, and that the myth of a primary Narcissus could have disastrous effects. The man from the country concluded that Freud, preoccupied as he was with his sexual discoveries, had not taken the time to ask himself where Oedipus had found the resources necessary to build a selfreflective system in which the "I" and the ego are at the same time separate and inexorably linked, and which made him able to judge himself. By undergoing psychoanalysis, the man from the country had signed a bill of change with Freud, but he fell into lethargy on the couch when his psychoanalyst, loyal to the master, tried to cash it in. An edict hidden in the foundations had excluded him from the field of psychoanalysis—a field its founder had created within a built-in spatial and temporal fence.
