A thread that runs through modern Greek history, from the start of the Revolution to the present day, is the "conflict of completions." A continuous clash of priorities between the goals and needs of national/territorial completion, institutional/constitutional completion, and economic/developmental, as well as fiscal completion. The interpretative scheme of the "conflict of completions" is complemented by two collateral constants in the course of the Greek state over its two hundred years of existence. The first consists of the coexistence of two opposing "complexes" that are permanently embedded in the mentality and self-perception of Greek society despite the impressive changes that successively occur in its composition and in the level of institutional and economic development of the country. On the one hand, there is the "complex of typological inferiority," and on the other, the "complex of idiosyncratic superiority" in relation to the countries of the European center. These are the countries that constitute the European norm, with Greece always being an exception that turns into a theory and, in any case, into an ideology of "Greek exceptionalism." The second constant is the "national oscillation" between West and East, which allows many to think or at least claim that, due to this very oscillation or its dual aspect, Greece is entitled to deviate or delay in relation to the European model.