Abstract
Abstract This chapter deals with the Oedipal dream as a common experience for both ancient and modern dreamers. This sense of commonality cannot erase a deep and ineradicable difference separating the ancients from the moderns. And yet the chapter points to a hermeneutic possibility that only a comparative reading of ancient and modern dreams can offer. By juxtaposing ancient and modern texts, and ancient and modern dream-interpretations, a third space of textuality—an intermediate zone—opens for us. This is where the unconscious will show up. Relationships between mothers and sons are taken to be the focus for the problematics of the literal-symbolic meaning of the erotic.
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