“…These ideas are crucially linked to the centrality of the Oedipus complex in Freud’s formulations, which constitutes the first, basic symbolic structure, and includes a network of concepts such as the murder of the father, the setting up of the ego ideal, superego, de‐sexualization and sublimation (Green, 1992, 2004, 2008, p. 28; Kohon, 1999, 2005b; Perelberg, 2009, p. 719). For Freud, the father is crucial, essentially as the third element that institutes the prohibition of incest in the relationship with the mother.…”