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Aaltonen, J. & Räkköläinen, V. (1987) The Paradox and the Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 10:117-132
- We will also try to show how this situation is one of the ingredients of the destruction of the Oedipus complex and how it can be used in the understanding of the intrapsychic development of the neurotic conflict.
- Then, the secondary injunction of double bind turns out as a first stage of the destruction of the Oedipus complex: it is as though the child says to himself: “I do not recognize this!
- The positive consequences of this kind of the turning away from, giving up, or the destruction of the Oedipus complex are traceable, in the mature ego, as the capacity to abstract thinking in general.
- The libidinal trends belonging to the Oedipus complex are in part desexualized and sublimated … and in part inhibited in their aim and125changed into impulses of affection.
- The dissolution of the Oedipus complex Standard Edition 19.
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Adatto, C. P. (1987) Son and Father. Before and Beyond the Oedipus Complex: By Peter Blos. New York: The Free Press. 1985. 186 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 56:564-567
- Before and Beyond the Oedipus ComplexBy Peter Blos.
- The book is divided into three parts: the son-father relationship from infancy to manhood: an intergenerational inquiry; some literary references to the dyadic son-father connection; and toward an altered view of the male oedipus complex: the role of adolescence.
- He also feels that the "positive" and "negative" oedipus complex, referring to "other-gender and same-gender directed" attitudes, have acquired pejorative meanings. He proposes the following terminology: "(1) dyadic allogender complex (for preoedipal positive complex), (2) dyadic isogender complex (for preoedipal negative complex), (3) triadic allogender complex (for positive Oedipus complex), and (4) triadic isogender complex (for negative Oedipus complex)" (p. 8).
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Adler, E. (2010) The Effacing of the Oedipus Complex. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 30:541-547
- The planners had not yet arrived at an official title, and perhaps Harriet let out more of their private deliberations than she had intended, for when she said, “We're thinking of calling it ‘Whatever happened to the Oedipus Complex?,’ or ‘Where has the Oedipus Complex gone?’”
- My title, The Effacing of the Oedipus Complex is, of course, a playful riff upon two classics of our psychoanalytic literature: Freud's 1924 paper The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex and Hans Loewald's 1979 work The Waning of the Oedipus Complex.
- Time does not permit me to develop Schafer's views on the Oedipus complex in all the complexity it deserves.
- (1924) The dissolution of the Oedipus complex. Standard Edition ed.
- (1979) The waning of the Oedipus complex. In: Papers on psychoanalysis ed.
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Aisenstein, M. (2017) Murdered father, dead father: Revisiting the Oedipus complex, by Rosine Jozef Perelberg, New Library of Psychoanalysis, Routledge, London, 2015; 260 pp. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 98:1245-1248
- This opening allows her to give a complex and profound personal reading of the Oedipus complex, mourning, the Third and temporality.
- In the fascinating Part III, comprising two chapters, Rosine Perelberg poses the question of the universality of the Oedipus complex. This is a long-standing, controversial question that, even today, continues to set anthropologists, or the ‘anthropological intelligentsia’ as I would say, against psychoanalysis.
- I would interpret the following chapter: ‘The structuring function of the Oedipus complex’, as the author's reply to the criticisms of Totem and Taboo advanced by the anthropologists.
- Her patient elaboration of the Oedipus complex goes from 1900 (The Interpretation of Dreams) to 1939 (Moses and Monotheism) and shows just how much it is a matter of an unending process of construction and not a sudden intuition.
- Murdered father; dead father: Revisiting the Oedipus complex. Int J Psychoanal 90:713-732.
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Anzieu, D. (1986) Chapter 3. The Discovery of the Oedipus Complex. Freud's Self-Analysis 118:175-251
- Thus myths, like dreams and phantasies, are wish-fulfilments. The term ‘complex’ was invented by a group of Swiss psychoanalysts led by Jung shortly before they broke with Freud, and only in 1910 did Freud himself use the expression ‘Oedipus complex’ in the first of his ‘Contributions to the Psychology of Love’ (1910h).
- By inventing the Oedipus complex, Freud symbolically realises his own Oedipus complex.
- Freud himself was an Oedipus in his feelings towards his parents.
- But there was an essential difference: whereas the Oedipus of legend had no complex (he fulfilled his wishes in an innocent, almost natural way, and encountered problems only afterwards), Hamlet is typical of someone grappling with that complex, haunted by unconscious guilt feelings because of that twofold wish, and paralysed by them in his actions, emotions, and life in general.
- Oedipus’ problem is one of filiation.
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Appelbaum, J. (2012) Father and Son: Freud Revisits his Oedipus Complex in Moses and Monotheism. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 72:166-184
- Freud; Moses; father and son; Oedipus complex; creativity In this paper, I propose to understand Freud on his own terms and within his social, intellectual and psychological context.
- Is it mere coincidence that Freud's two most important intellectual figures were Oedipus and Moses, who were also abandoned children?
- As Kurt Eissler (1974) remarked on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Freud's death: “Thus in persons with great creative capacities there is no dissolution of the Oedipus 181 complex. The destruction of the Oedipus complex, as Freud postulated it, occurs in normal and talented persons” (p.
- Could the resolution of Freud's Oedipal complex have given rise to a re-evaluation of his theoretical and clinical insights?
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Applegarth, A. (1977) Female Sexuality and the Oedipus Complex: By Humberto Nagera. New York: Jason Aronson, Inc., 1975. 143 pp.. Psychoanalytic Quarterly 46:693-695
- 197746693-695Female Sexuality and the Oedipus ComplexBy Humberto Nagera.
- AdrienneApplegarth Adrienne ApplegarthSAN FRANCISCO In this economically and clearly written book, Nagera has summarized part of the psychoanalytic theory of the development of the oedipus complex in the female. This topic has been a difficult and a complex one and the subject of important dispute from the early days of psychoanalysis. The author begins with a historical review of the evolution of the concept of oedipal development, dwelling particularly on the complicated ways in which the attachment of the girl to the mother has been designated, including, of course, both the attachment that is part of the oedipus complex proper as well as that of the preoedipal phases. Several chapters are devoted to a systematic presentation of the stages of the oedipus complex; in these, Nagera clarifies the distinction between the first, or phallic-oedipal stage, and the second, or oedipal stage.
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Bacciagaluppi, M. (1984) Some Remarks on the Oedipus Complex From an Ethological Point of View. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 12:471-490
- One prominent member of the neo-Freudian school, Irving Bieber (1982), has often decried the current underemphasis on the Oedipus complex. I agree with Dr.
- No attempt is made in this paper to review in full the work on the Oedipus complex; the magnitude of such a task would be too daunting.
- In many cases, the Oedipus complex is the culmination of a bad symbiosis.
- To conclude this discussion, the Oedipus complex, as we see it clinically, has both innate and acquired features.
- In many cases, the Oedipus complex is considered to be the culmination of a bad symbiosis.
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Badcock, C. R. (1990) Is the Oedipus Complex a Darwinian Adaptation?. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 18:368-377
- 1990 18 2 368-377 Is the Oedipus Complex a Darwinian Adaptation?
- Until now psychoanalysis has had to rely solely on its traditional approach to justify this central theorem, but, from an adaptive, evolutionary point of view, the Oedipus complex might constitute a reproductive strategy acquired during our hunter-gatherer prehistory.
- This can mean that male-male conflict will be a correlate of mating effort, parent-offspring and offspring-offspring conflict one of reproductive effort. The Oedipus complex can be seen as constituting two subcomplexes: an infantile subcomplex and an adult subcomplex.
- Since the adult Oedipus complex leads males to desire women “like mother” and females to want to be married to men “like father” it could be adaptive and might be seen as constituting an effective strategy for the allocation of mating effort in both sexes. As far as the antagonistic side of the Oedipus complex is concerned, it is obvious that in polygynous, primal hunting and gathering societies young men will ineluctably come into conflict with their fathers' generation over the question of allocation of women.
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Baranger, W. (1950) Róheim, Géza: The Oedipus complex and infantile sexuality. (El complejo de Edipo y la sexualidad infantil). The Psychoanal. Quart. Vol. XV, Nọ 4, 1946, p. 503-508.. Revista de Psicoanálisis (REVAPA) 7:654
- 1950 7 4 654 A Róheim, Géza: The Oedipus complex and infantile sexuality.
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Basch-Kåhre, E. (1987) Forms of the Oedipus Complex. Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 10:103-115
- She spoke of the “early oedipus complex” which she felt arises during the oral phase.
- The adult personality develops gradually during the working through of the layers of the oedipus complex. Thus, each culture shapes a typical personality organization by influencing the configuration of each stratum of the oedipus complex.
- This explains the remarkable conformity found at the nucleus of every person's oedipus complex. Early layers of the oedipus complex are sexualized during the oedipal phase.
- The sexualization of the different layers of the oedipus complex gives rise to penis envy and castration anxiety.
- I should like to illustrate the anal strata of the oedipus complex in a man. (B) suffered from neurotic depression.
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Beaton, C. (2019) Chapter 2: To the Lighthouse and the Oedipal Triangle: Impotence, Erotic Degradation, and the Oedipus Complex from Freudian and Self-Psychological Perspectives. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 39:450-459
- We see here how the Oedipus complex seems a natural outgrowth of the phallic stage, and how its presence exacerbates even mature adulthood relational dynamics.
- But according to Freud, the Oedipus complex resolves when the boy identifies with his mother, or as a result of an intensification of identification with his father.
- This article sees the need for both theoretical frameworks for the ultimate healing of the Oedipus complex, and thereby degradation dynamics.
- The Oedipus complex then is the impetus of impotence, a metaphorical castration of self and phallus, the latter two of which, upon Oedipal resolution, are restored.
- The traditional Freudian Oedipus complex is enlightened by a self-psychological search for wholeness that encourages acceptance of a multifaceted, multiproblemed, multihealing self.
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Behn-Eschenburg, H. (1935) The Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 16:175-185
- In other words: do not the pre-Oedipal antecedents of the Oedipus complex assume an astonishing importance?
- On the one hand, we have to consider the time-limits of the Oedipus complex and, on the other, how great is the importance of the pre-Oedipal phase.
- This means that the Oedipus complex was already in full force.
- Almost we might accept the paradoxical conclusion that the less sign there is to be seen of any Oedipus complex, the earlier will it have played its part.
- In conclusion let me repeat once more that the less sign there is of the Oedipus complex, the earlier may it be assumed to have occurred.
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Bemporad, J. (1995) Oedipus Rex and Oedipus Complex. Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis 23:493-500
- (lines 980-983) It may be ironic that the later “Oedipus Complex” may have been first mentioned publicly in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex.
- In Oedipus Rex, the dramatic sequence is initiated by the messenger who arrives in order to offer Oedipus the crown of the kingdom of Corinth.
- The cause of the events told to us in Oedipus Rex is the will of the gods. The cause of the events of the Oedipus complex is a quirk of evolution, an unevenness in development in which certain functions intrude on the preprogrammed sequence of maturation.
- Therefore, the underlying message of Oedipus Rex and of the Oedipus Complex might be summarized in the elegant lines of Pindar, that sublime poet who was Sophocles' contemporary: We can in greatness of mind Or of body be like the Immortals Though we know not to what goal By day or in the nights Fate has written that we shall run.
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Bergmann, M. S. (2010) The Oedipus Complex and Psychoanalytic Technique. Psychoanalytic Inquiry 30:535-540
- We should note that the legend of Oedipus does not necessarily describe the Oedipus complex, for Oedipus did not kill his father in order to possess his mother sexually.
- The manner in which the Oedipus complex was discovered continued to fascinate Freud.
- The Oedipus complex had the status of an infantile fantasy that underwent repression.
- The prime example in his mind must have been the Oedipus complex. The two sides of the Oedipus complex, the murderous and the incestuous, have only rarely been the subjects of literature.
- In this case, the Oedipus complex is associated with depression.
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Bernstein, A. (1976) Freud and Oedipus: A New Look at the Oedipus Complex in the Light of Freud's Life. Psychoanalytic Review 63:393-407
- 3a Discovery of the Oedipus Complex Jacob Freud, the father of Sigmund Freud, died on October 23, 1896, at eighty-one years of age.
- 2 The Oedipus Complex Reconsidered Many of the objections which can be raised against Freud's interpretation of the Oedipus play and his conclusions therefrom about human sexuality are anticipated by Freud himself.
- 399 But … we can extend the content of the Oedipus complex to include all the child's relations to both parents.
- For the central issue which the Oedipus complex seizes upon is the fate of human love and hate as these are forged within the crucible of the Western family in the face of the incest taboo.
- In fact, the first published account of the issues comprising the Oedipus complex occurs in his book on dreams.
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Bernstein, A. (2001) Freud and Oedipus: A New Look at the Oedipus Complex in the Light of Freud's Life. Modern Psychoanalysis 26:269-282
- Without challenging the validity of the Oedipus complex, what strikes us is that his observations about Oedipus Rex appear to be fatally and unmistakably flawed.
- In fact, the first published account of the issues comprising the Oedipus complex occurs in his book on dreams.
- But … we can extend the content of the Oedipus complex to include all the child's relations to both parents.
- For the central issue, which the Oedipus complex seizes upon, is the fate of human love and hate as these are forged within the crucible of the Western family in the face of the incest taboo.
- Nor does the Oedipus myth show incest and parricide as “wishes” of Oedipus.
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Biton-Bereby, L., Mikulincer, M. & Shaver, P. R. (2019) Attachment and the Oedipus Complex: Attachment Orientations Moderate the Effects of Priming Oedipal Representations on Sexual Attraction. Psychoanalytic Psychology 36:230-238
- Several psychoanalytic writers have claimed that the sense of attachment security facilitates resolution of the Oedipus complex (e.g., Eagle, 2013; Fonagy et al., 2002; Steele, 2010).
- The missing link: Parental sexuality in the Oedipus complex. In R. Britton (Ed.), The Oedipus complex today (pp.
- (1992). The Oedipus situation and the depressive position.
- The relevance of the Oedipus myth to fostered and adopted children.
- The dissolution of the Oedipus complex. In J. Strachey (Ed.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol.
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Biton-Bereby, L., Mikulincer, M. & Shaver, P. R. (2020) Attachment and the Oedipus Complex: Attachment Orientations Moderate the Effects of Priming Oedipal Representations on the Construal of Romantic Relationships. Psychoanalytic Psychology 37:324-334
- Several psychoanalytic writers have claimed that attachment insecurities can interfere with the resolution of the Oedipus complex (e.g., Eagle, 2013; Fonagy et al., 2002; Steele, 2010).
- Attachment and the Oedipus complex: Attachment orientations moderate the effects of priming Oedipal representations on sexual attraction.
- The relevance of the Oedipus myth to fostered and adopted children.
- The dissolution of the Oedipus complex. In J. Strachey (Ed.), The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud (Vol.
- (2001). Oedipus and the search for reality. In P.
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Blanck, G. (1984) The Complete Oedipus Complex. International Journal of Psychoanalysis 65:331-339
- Freud (1923a) describes the complete Oedipus complex: One gets an impression that the simple Oedipus complex is by no means its commonest form, but rather represents a simplification or schematization which, to be sure, is often enough justified for practical purposes.
- Loewald (1980) points out that many terms have been applied to the puzzle of how the Oedipus complex is surmounted. The Riviere translation of the Collected Papers(Freud, 1924b) refers to the passing of the Oedipus complex.
- He, however, regards the waning of the Oedipus complex within the broader context of a death instinct.
- Assoc. 24 (Supplement):29-57 GITELSON, M. 1952 Re-evaluation of the role of the Oedipus complex Int. J. Psychoanal.
- 53:3-11 ROSS, J. M. 1982 Oedipus revisited. Laius and the "Laius Complex" Psychoanal.
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