New studies of old villains
Subtitle: a radical reconsideration of the oedipal complex
By: Paul Verhaeghe ; with a foreword by Juliet Mitchell.
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9781590512821
Subjects: Oedipus complex
Description: "Freud's discovery of the Oedipus complex has had a tumultuous fate in the field of psychology in the United States. At first considered the kernel of psychoanalysis, it progressively lost its luster because of its patriarchal underpinnings. Freud's theory that the child represses his love for his mother for fear of incurring his father's wrath is now obsolete and replaced by various theories focused mainly on the mother-child relationship, where the burning question of the child's sexual development is conveniently set aside. In this revolutionary book Paul Verhaeghe explains why the Oedipus complex is not what it appears to be, revisiting the history of psychoanalysis to reveal connections with recent discoveries in attachment theory."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Father; title: Freud's oedipal theory as a neurotic solution; title: Little Hans and Big Papa; title: Installation of the father and therapeutic result; title: Triple duplicity : fantasy, theory, society; title: The myth of the primal horde as a safeguard for the theory; title: Family romances; title: Mother; title: Moses : Credo quia absurdum; title: Lacan's crocodile mother; title: Hystorical version; title: Analytical version; title: Jouissance and passivity; title: Jouissance; title: Role of the mother : seat of a forbidden enjoyment; title: Role of the father : structural operator of the prohibition; title: Identity; title: Identitas and separation anxiety; title: Difference and fusion anxiety; title: From dualistic-imaginary to triangular-symbolic; title: Conclusion: The sinthome; title: Believing in one's symptom; title: Creatio ex nihilo : le sinthome.