Abstract
In a comprehensive study on the mythologeme of Oedipus frequently occurring in fin-de- siecle European culture, the author ventures to scrutinise the explicit conflict between father and son in D. Merezhkovsky’s novel Peter and Alexis . The mythical story re discovered by Freud, not only stimulated the psychoanalytic models of psychosexual development and culture, but also fascinated Russian Symbolist’s imagination. By relying on the theme of patricide the article juxtaposes the story of Oedipus with the story about Theseus. Loci in Merezhkovsky’s theoretical essays offer interpretation of the cultural message coded in the myth.
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