Article: Oedipe chasseur. Une mythologie du sujet en Nouvelle-Guinee (Oedipe the Hunter: A Mythology of the Subject in New Guinea).

The most common response from anthropologists regarding the psychoanalytic interpretation of myth is, "It may be so, but it may not be so." Such a more or less negative, noncommittal attitude is frustrating for those who advocate psychoanalytic approaches, and a variety of new theoretical frameworks have been introduced to make such interpretations as plausible as possible. No matter how plausible they become, however, it is quite unlikely that they will obtain general acceptance by anthropologists not of a psychoanalytic persuasion, for psychoanalytic interpretations of myth are in principle ethnographically untestable, even when the myths under study are still "alive." ...