That is why our preceding criticism was directed at Oedipus as it is meant to command our respect and to function for us: it is not at the weakest point the primitives that Oedipus must be attacked, but at the strongest point, at the level of the strongest link, by revealing the degree of disfiguration it implies and brings to bear on desiring production, on the syntheses of the unconscious, and on libidinal investments in our cultural and social milieu.