Abstract
The metaphor of the “mother country” offers a key to the understanding of the politics of domination on a world scale. Its oppositional entanglement with “the father” recalls the Oedipus complex and hence invites psychoanalysis to offer an understanding of political domination as a key issue in postcolonialism. Since its establishment as a theoretic fiction in the nineteenth century, the Oedipus complex has undergone many revisions. This essay traces some of the discussions that attempt to transcend the Oedipal fixation in Egyptian literary works published during the transitional moment of January 2011. It attempts to release these discussions from their imprisonment in Arabic language and in literature and place them alongside better-known, more manifest theoretical discussions.
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