Oedipus Complex
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving?

30 Jul 2009 In this paper the author explores situations when a patient seems to regress masochistically from a progressive development. She is concerned with moments when the patient's struggle towards oedipal relating may be easily confused with a situation ... Read more...

Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex.

30 Jul 2009 This paper recovers the notion of the sacrifice of sexuality as the central, tragic, element of the oedipal structure. This notion has been largely abandoned in the psychoanalytic literature that has tended to reduce the oedipal structure to ... Read more...

Freud's Rat Man from the perspective of an early-life variant of the Oedipus complex.

29 Jun 2009 In the spirit of Freud's invitation to other investigators to elaborate on his "Notes Upon a Case of Obsessional Neurosis" (1909), the author offers additional and differing views on the case of the Rat Man (Dr. Ernst Langer). These views have been ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Oedipus Complex'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Is feminine masochism a concept worth reviving? 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• Listening to Schreber: formulations derived from an analytic close reading of his memoirs. 30 Jul 2009
• Freud's Rat Man from the perspective of an early-life variant of the Oedipus complex. 29 Jun 2009
• Little Hans: masculinity foretold. 29 Jun 2009
• 'The healing power of love': the literary/analytic bond of marriage in Freud's essay on Gradiva. 30 May 2009
• Suppose Freud had chosen Orestes instead. 30 Mar 2009
• Sibling jealousy and aesthetic ambiguity in Austen's Pride and Prejudice. 30 Mar 2009
• The clash of irrationalities in Sophocles' Antigone. 30 Mar 2009
• The inability to mourn and the inability to love in Shakespeare's Hamlet. 30 Mar 2009
• Theory is personal. 30 Mar 2009
• III. The progression from rapprochement to adolescence. 30 Mar 2009
• 'Reverberation time', dreaming and the capacity to dream. 30 Jan 2009
• Summaries of the Sixth Annual Poster Session of the American Psychoanalytic Association: part I. Triangular relationships in adolescence predict adult psychopathology: an empirical validation of the Oedipus complex? 29 Nov 2008
• Succession and survival in psychotherapy organizations. 30 Oct 2008
• Oedipus today. 30 Oct 2008
• The comic in little Hans: literary conceit or analytic process? Commentary on Ahbel-Rappe. 30 Aug 2008
• Freud's Little Oedipus: Hans as exception to the oedipal rule. 30 Aug 2008
• Grievance: the underlying oedipal configuration. 30 Jul 2008
• 'Don't save her'- Sigmund Freud meets Project Pat: the rescue motif in hip-hop. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Oedipus Complex'

Definition: Attachment of the child to the parent of the opposite sex, accompanied by envious and aggressive feelings toward the parent of the same sex.

Descriptor UI: D009813

Alternative terms: Oedipus Complex; Complex, Oedipus;

Tree Number: F02.739.794.653;

Online Note: search PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY 1966-74

History Note: 91(75); was see under PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY 1975-90

Technical Notes: no qualif