ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the wishful ideas of neurotics which take the form of rescue phantasies, since Sigmund Freud in 1910 interpreted their unconscious meaning and showed that they derive from the parent complex. The phantasies of mother-rescue arise for the most part from the tender feelings of the son, but according to Freud's analysis, alongside the desire to rescue they contain the wish to give the mother a child. The rescue-phantasy is seen to contain, besides the desire to murder the father and separate the parents, the further wish to castrate the father. The neurotic saves the king's life instead of taking it like Oedipus. The danger in which the king is placed is, considering only the manifest content, in no way connected with the son; indeed the son risks his life for the sake of his father. A particularly striking concurrence of the forces at work in both phantasy-formations is to be found in the running-away.
