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Freud makes out this unknown and unconscious source of conscience to be the Oedipus complex, viz.
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The institution of totemism stemmed from a sense of guilt for the primordial crime, which “survive for thousands of years, remaining effective in generations which could not have known anything of this deed.” Footnote 4 The survival of this sense of guilt takes the form of the “infantile recurrence of totemism” and the “conscience phobia” whose sources remain unknown and unconscious. Totemism is one of the earliest social institutions by means of which the Oedipus complexes of the primitive people are repressed. According to this analysis, “the totemic system resulted from the conditions underlying the Oedipus complex.” Footnote 3 The totem animal is a substitute of the father and the totemic system originates in the primordial crime-the killing the primal father by the band of brothers impelled by the incest wishes towards their mother. This similarity indicates a revealing analogy between the psychological syndromes underlying totemism and the Greek Myth of Oedipus. For Freud, there is a deep similarity between primitive totemism and the symptoms of compulsive neurotics, which are both characterized by the feeling of ambivalence. The totem was hereditary only through the female line it was forbidden to kill the totem (or to eat it, which under primitive conditions amounts to the same thing) members of a totem were forbidden to have sexual intercourse with each other.” Footnote 2 These facts refer to three major elements of totemism: (1) taboos in relation to the totem, such as the taboo against exogamy and the killing the totem animal (2) the identification of tribal members with the totem animal (3) the ambivalent attitude toward the taboo object or the action forbidden by the taboo, which is manifested for example in the co-existence of love and hate toward the totem animal that is sacrificed periodically in primitive communal feast. In Totem and Taboo, Freud sums up the basic features of totem worship as follows: “ The totems were originally only animals and were considered the ancestors of single tribes.
At the same time, I will make out certain distinctive features of the ancient Chinese solution to the psychological syndrome that are beyond universal psychoanalytic determination. As a conclusion of my study, I will demonstrate how the theory of psychoanalysis may provide a coherent interpretation of these two aspects of the psychological syndrome in Chinese dragon worship. The two aspects of the Oedipus complex, namely the father complex and repressed incest wishes-which boil down to the ambivalent attitude toward the father and tabooed incest wishes, are both present in Chinese dragon worship. After that, I will demonstrate that the Chinese dragon worship and the Greek myth of Oedipus originate in the same kind of psychological syndromes. In what follows, I will recap first Freud’s theory of totemism as I establish the relevancy of Freud’s theory for the present investigation. In this paper, by drawing upon Freud’s interpretation of the psychological foundation of all ethical and cultural development, I propose to shed a new light on the meanings and origins of the dragon worship and its intriguing analogy with the Greek myth of Oedipus. However, we can find few study on the psychological origins of Chinese dragon worship and its ethical and cultural implications.
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Remarkably, there have been a range of scholarly investigations into the meanings and origins of dragon based on historical, archeological, and anthological studies.