Oedipus is a reincarnation of Empire, by way of God.

[Michael Pugliese]

http://www.anu.edu.au/HRC/first_and_last/chapter_2/state_extreme.htm
Oedipus is a reincarnation of Empire, by way of God. The monotheistic god
represents the completion of the spiritualization tendency of despotism (the
perfection of the trick of simultaneous absence and omnipresence; pure
transcendence). This spiritualization is a necessary condition for the
application of State desire to the individual body (in which the Law laid
down by the emperor-god takes the form of a conscience or superego: mind
over body). The development of the superego is a necessary condition for
capitalism, whose fluctuation requirements necessitate a complex scattering
of ground-level command centers throughout the social field--local autonomy,
but within bounds (unconstrained by conscience, capitalist bodies would slip
toward the Nomadic-Extreme, and risk dissipating into anarchy). Thus begins
the reign of self-dictatorship known as 'democracy.' The transition to
capitalist democracy is unwittingly effected by the Christian absolute
monarchy, the stated goals of which were to embody God's empire on earth and
to revive the glory of Rome's [on the application of State desire to the
individual in the context of the French monarchy, see Elias 1983 and Marin
1989; on the king of France as Christ figure and presumptive successor to
the Roman emperors, see Apostolidès 1981:66-92]. Although the implantation
of a collectively derived superego in the individual body was a condition of
capitalism's emergence, it is not a necessary element of its subsequent
functioning. In fact, the superego as understood by Freud is destined to
dissolve under late capitalism, which requires ever-increasing social
fluidity. The following chapter examines the way in which that dissolution
is played out in relation to Reagan's body image...
Michael Pugliese