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of the tales (emotional, stylistic, narratival, aesthetic - in short 'phenomenological'). Excepting three articles, the rest of my work in this subject is in Gujarati.
Dundes has discussed the alrernative interpretation of the Oedipus Complex on the basis of Lessa's materials and other evidence ('The Study of Folklore', 1965). In Kluckhorn's study, the power conflict between father and son emerges as an equally prevalent motivation. A story known from the Buddhist (Pali) Jātaka literature (Jātaka No. 58) and attested also is several versions in the early Jain literary tradition clearly shows this motivation. In most of its versions its moral points to the jealousy based on power conflict between the father and the son. I have treated it at length in a paper entitled
Some Ancient Versions of Oedipus' that was published in 1994. Hence I will not tire you by its presentation here. I hope that these somewhat random observations you will not find without some significance and relevance, and that the three days' deliberations and discussions of the Conference will be quite fruitfull. Thank you.
