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Dietmar Seel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex a revision
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016Co-Authors: Siegfried Zepf, Burkhard Ullrich, Dietmar SeelAbstract:The authors consider whether those aspects of the Oedipus myths that have been ignored by Freud could improve our knowledge of how the Oedipus Complex develops. They conclude that the myths can provide an answer to Freud's question posed on the 25 February 1914 (Nunberg and Federn, 1975, p. 234) concerning "the extent to which the Oedipus Complex is a reflection of the sexual behavior of the parents" with Fenichel's (1931, p. 421) view that the "child's Oedipus Complex reflects that of his parents".
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Penis Envy and the Female Oedipus Complex: A Plea to Reawaken an Ineffectual Debate.
Psychoanalytic review, 2016Co-Authors: Siegfried Zepf, Dietmar SeelAbstract:Going along with Laplanche's assumption that there is no endogenous sexuality, the authors discuss Freud's concepts of the female Oedipus Complex and penis envy and some of its proposed alternatives. The female oedipal conflict turns out to be the outcome of a projective identification with the Oedipus Complexes of the mother and father. In the context of the rivalry with the mother, penis envy refers to the maternal power over the father's penis that the daughter wants to have in herself, while, in the context of the rivalry with the father, penis envy arises from the jealousy of the father's penis that the daughter believes is necessary to have on herself in order to satisfy her mother. The authors conclude that in Freud's day such insights were already available, which might have culminated in the conceptualization they present in this paper.
Siegfried Zepf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex a revision
The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2016Co-Authors: Siegfried Zepf, Burkhard Ullrich, Dietmar SeelAbstract:The authors consider whether those aspects of the Oedipus myths that have been ignored by Freud could improve our knowledge of how the Oedipus Complex develops. They conclude that the myths can provide an answer to Freud's question posed on the 25 February 1914 (Nunberg and Federn, 1975, p. 234) concerning "the extent to which the Oedipus Complex is a reflection of the sexual behavior of the parents" with Fenichel's (1931, p. 421) view that the "child's Oedipus Complex reflects that of his parents".
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Penis Envy and the Female Oedipus Complex: A Plea to Reawaken an Ineffectual Debate.
Psychoanalytic review, 2016Co-Authors: Siegfried Zepf, Dietmar SeelAbstract:Going along with Laplanche's assumption that there is no endogenous sexuality, the authors discuss Freud's concepts of the female Oedipus Complex and penis envy and some of its proposed alternatives. The female oedipal conflict turns out to be the outcome of a projective identification with the Oedipus Complexes of the mother and father. In the context of the rivalry with the mother, penis envy refers to the maternal power over the father's penis that the daughter wants to have in herself, while, in the context of the rivalry with the father, penis envy arises from the jealousy of the father's penis that the daughter believes is necessary to have on herself in order to satisfy her mother. The authors conclude that in Freud's day such insights were already available, which might have culminated in the conceptualization they present in this paper.
Louis Breger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Psychopathia sexualis: sexuality in old and new psychoanalysis.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2013Co-Authors: Louis BregerAbstract:The different conceptions of sexuality in classical and contemporary psychoanalysis are explored. Freud's misguided theories of sexual or libidinal drives and the Oedipus Complex are shown to be defenses against his own traumatic attachment history. The evidence for this is found in a review of his childhood and self-analysis, and further illustrated with the cases reported in the Studies on Hysteria and elsewhere. Modern views of sex turn these old theories on their heads, demonstrating that sexual fantasies and actions are phenomena, unique to each individual, that are themselves in need of explanation. These radically different conceptions of sexuality are illustrated with 3 case histories.
Marvin P Osman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the role of an early life variant of the Oedipus Complex in motivating religious endeavors
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2004Co-Authors: Marvin P OsmanAbstract:A close reading of sources Freud used in writing Totem and Taboo supports the thesis that a predecessor archaic Oedipus Complex is instrumental in motivating religious worship. This early-life Complex manifests a psychodynamic in which birth, growth, and self-realization, to varying degree in each individual, tend to be psychically correlated with diminution and harm vis-a-vis one's procreators. As a result, the psychodynamic is likely to induce unease over youth exercising its powers. The story of Adam and Eve, which depicts a growing self-determination being stymied and coming to grief, is a mythic epitome of this psychodynamic. Religious practices serve to expiate the sense of unease, partly by replenishing and even recasting seemingly diminished procreators, through myth and ritual, into omnipotent, immortal entities, and partly by reversing individuation's challenge to authority by exhorting submission to, and even union, with the divine parent. The sources used in demonstrating the various means whereby religious practices serve to ameliorate the burden of "original sin" include W. R. Smith (1894), the Old Testament, and studies of archaic religious rites, including those of the Aztecs.
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the adam and eve story as exemplar of an early life variant of the Oedipus Complex
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 2000Co-Authors: Marvin P OsmanAbstract:The Adam and Eve story is construed as having an organizing function that facilitates the analytic understanding of certain patients. In this interpretation, the story epitomizes a psychodynamic in which progressive growth, with separation and individuation, of the young is experienced as perilous--not only to them, but also correspondingly to their procreators. In the myth, the increasing psychic and physical maturation of Adam and Eve produced a crisis. Not only was divine authority flouted, but also apprehensions were aroused that God might be humbled or diminished. This threatened him, evoking his wrath and leading to the punishment by abandonment of his youthful wards. It is suggested that the story depicts an emotional Complex of widespread application and is an archaic version of the Oedipus Complex, continuous with the Oedipus Complex proper, but from an earlier stage of development. This archaic Complex is delineated with clinical vignettes, and a clinical explication of its various components is provided. Clinical management is considered, particularly with reference to the challenge that a closed-system perspective (Fairbairn 1958) presents to a patient's development.
Judith A Cohen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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child sexual abuse
Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2014Co-Authors: Laura K Murray, Amanda J Nguyen, Judith A CohenAbstract:Anthropological evidence suggests that child sexual abuse has been a persistent and widespread problem for thousands of years. Historically, however, attempts to raise public awareness concerning this problem have been met with disbelief and public disdain. Most notable was Sigmund Freud’s attempt to enlighten his colleagues at the Vienna Society for Psychiatry and Neurology in 1896 with his presentation of the “Etiology of Hysteria.” This paper outlined the seduction theory, in which he linked childhood sexual assault to adult mental illness. Not surprisingly, the paper was not well received, and Freud himself abandoned the theory in an apparent effort to avoid alienation by his skeptical and disapproving colleagues. Later, he developed a theory that seemed to be a more palatable and acceptable explanation for his patients’ descriptions of childhood sexual assaults. Freud’s Oedipus-Complex theory not only gained wide acceptance but became the foundation for what would become a dominant force in Western psychology: psychoanalysis (Summit, 1989).
