The Topography of the Oedipus Complex.

The case is George Hadjimichalis' Documenta 14 installation Crossroad. The Crossroad Where Oedipus Killed Laius. A Description and History of the Journey from Thebes to Corinth, Delphi, and the Return to Thebes (1990–95/1997). The approach of the article is location studies from the angle of psychogeography (Coverley), Situationism and geocriticism (Westphal). These theories are applied to the Greek landscapes as rendered in George Hadjimichalis' artistic textualization of the route in his multimedia installation. Crossroad has multiple sources. The article casts light on the topographical nature of the Oedipus conflict and its cultural history, including not only the landscape and its route as they exist today, but also as they are figured in Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex, and as they are thematized in Sigmund Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]