According to Clark (2012), “Myths often seem to address common questions, questions that are likely to arise in any human society” (p. 106). A psychoanalytical approach significantly answers the arising questions of the “collective unconscious” despite the belief that “this idea [of the collective unconscious] tends to be dressed up in a rather romantic, mystical way” (Dowden, 1992, p. 22). Certain opposing views of Ken Dowden on the Freudian school of interpretation can be refuted efficiently when this psychoanalytical approach is applied to Greek mythology, specifically Hesiod’s Theogony and Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Considering, even Dowden recognizes the influence of Freud’s concept of “ethnic imagination” as he claims, “Psychoanalytic
