ABSTRACT
In generalising Sigmund Freud’s considerations, one could argue that in the oedipal situation, boys and girls primarily identify with the object that poses the greatest danger, thereby acquiring their gender identity. Although mythology does not portray the child but the parents as staging the oedipal drama, the mythological versions do not disagree with Freud’s assumption that the drama is always twofold in that it includes both heterosexual and homosexual aspects. Referring to the mothers of J. Sadger’s patients, Freud stated that “the mothers of his homosexual patients were frequently masculine women, women with energetic traits of character, who were able to push the father out of his proper place”, and he emphasised. A. Allen, R. C. Bak, M. Eigen, and P. B. Neubauer were also convinced that male homosexuality is established by an identification with a phallic mother. As the myths show, both forms of the complex are warded off but remain virulent.
