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Klein, M. (1928). Note on the Preceding Communication. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 9:255-258.

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(1928). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 9:255-258

Note on the Preceding Communication

Melanie Klein Author Information

In order to support my remarks on the dream communicated by Dr. Bryan I must refer to certain theoretical propositions which I brought forward in my paper for the last Congress, and which I accounted for in

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greater detail in the lectures which I delivered here last autumn. In one of the early stages of the Oedipus conflict the desire to have intercourse with the mother and to engage in a contest with the father expresses itself in terms of the oral- and anal-sadistic instinctual impulses, which are predominant in this phase of development. The idea is that the boy, by penetrating the mother's womb, destroys it and gets rid of the father's penis which, according to a typical infantile sexual theory, is assumed to be permanently present in the womb (the father's penis at this stagebeing the complete embodiment of

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