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January 30, 1968. ON FILICIDE AND ITS MEANING IN THE GENESIS OF ACTING OUT AND PSYCHOPATHIC BEHAVIOR IN OEDIPUS. Arnaldo Rascovsky, M.D. and Mrs. Matilde Rascovsky.
Filicide, the killing of a child by his parents, is often denied, repressed, and disregarded because of its disturbing implications. It occurs in blatant form as actual murder and the battered-child syndrome, and also appears in many attenuated forms, such as circumcision, abandonment, instinctual prohibitions, cruelty, punishment, and other types of parental behavior that harm the ego of the child.