CORRELATE • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Correlate

... of the mythological separation of the primal pair is the castration of the father by the son. The motive is, according to all accounts, psychologically quite as comprehensible as the frequently substituted castration of the son by the father. The latter is psychologically the necessary correlate of the first form. The rivals, father and son, menace each other's sexual life. That the castration motive works out that way with father and son (son-in-law if the daughter takes the place of the mother) is expressed either in so many words in the myth or through corresponding ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer