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Freud, S. The Decline of the œCdipus Complex.
Laforgue, R. The Positive and Negative œdipus Complexes
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Freud, S. The Decline of the œdipus Complex.—Appeared in International Zeitschrift for Psychoanalysis, tome X, 1924. See Collected Papers. Hogarth Press II, 269.
Laforgue, R. The Positive and Negative œdipus Complexes.— Occasionally an analyst has an easy case, particularly accessible to the psychoanalytic method of investigation, like the case of the young homosexual, who already knew psychoanalytic concepts and whose family situation was particularly favorable, reported by the author in No. II of this volume. Generally, however, one has many exterior conditions, family influences which caused pathological condition, etc., to combat. In the course of nearly every psychoanalytic treatment there is a moment when the struggle rests for a long time indefinite, the dreams showing traces of it. M. Laforgue in this article gives examples of dreams in the cases of various men and women to exemplify this critical moment, this moment when the positive œdipus complex threatens to gain over the negative and the fear of castration, fear of death ensuing therefrom opposes strenuously this normal evolution. Or again if the neurosis represents a means of revenge, when this critical moment arrives the dreams show the patient is furious, refusing all progress rather than give up chance for revenge.