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Oedipus Complex - Freudian term, drawn from the myth of Oedipus, designating attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own. It occurs during the phallic stage of the psycho-sexual development of the personality, approximately years three to five. Resolution of the Oedipus complex is believed to occur by

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The Oedipus Complex Today: Clinical Implications » Read Now
by Ronald Britton, Michael Feldman, Edna O'Shaughnessy. 156 pgs.

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A collection of papers focusing on the Kleinian conception of the Oedipus complex, how this is now understood, and what effect it has had on clinical practice.
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Narcissus and Oedipus: The Children of Psychoanalysis » Read Now
by Victoria Hamilton. 318 pgs.

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Freud organised the theory of the child's journey to adulthood around the myths of Narcissus and Oedipus. In this intelligent study, the author re-examines these myths to see if a radical reinterpretation of them will give birth to new sets of images through which psychoanalysts can contemplate the contemporary patient.
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Basic Psychoanalytic Concepts on the Libido Theory ("Oedipus Complex" begins on p. 64, "The Oedipus Complex of the Girl" begins on p. 67, "The Oedipus Complex of the Boy" begins on p. 73, and "Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex" begins on p. 75) » Read Now
by Humberto Nagera. 194 pgs.

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...All that remained from it were the terms Oedipus-Complex to designate the experiences centred around...Phallic Erotism 56 8. Oedipus Complex 64 9. The Oedipus Complex of...
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The Concepts of Sigmund Freud ("The Super-Ego and the Oedipus Complex" begins on p. 216) » Read Now
by Bartlett H. Stoodley. 273 pgs.

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...foundation for the phobia was the Oedipus complex. "These aggressive propensities...clinical evidence. B. The Oedipus complex is not strong enough to explain...exercised...
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Introduction to the Reading of Lacan: The Unconscious Structured like a Language (Chap. 12 "The Mirror Stage and the Oedipus Complex") » Read Now
by Joel Dor, Judith Feher Gurewich. 296 pgs.

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A major and long overdue addition to the American/English psychoanalytic literature . . . written specifically for clinicians, by a clinician . . . All major conceptsamong them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subjectare developed...
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A major and long overdue addition to the American/English psychoanalytic literature . . . written specifically for clinicians, by a clinician . . . All major conceptsamong them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subjectare developed and discussed in depth. Nicholas Kouretas, Harvard Medical School
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Critical Theory of the Family (Chap. 1 "Freud's Concept of the Family") » Read Now
by Mark Poster. 233 pgs.

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...specifically at the time of the Oedipus complex. Yet childhood is never conceptualized...being the pivotal point in the Oedipus complex. There can be little doubt...the...
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Why Freud Was Wrong: Sin, Science, and Psychoanalysis (Chap. Eleven "Exploring the Unconscious: Self-Analysis and Oedipus") » Read Now
by Richard Webster. 676 pgs.

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...Mitchell was quoted as calling the Oedipus complex a psychic truth not a literal...understand Freud. In the entire complex body of psychoanalysis he left...gift but as...
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Contributions to Psycho-analysis, 1921-1945 ("Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict, 1928" begins on p. 202 and "The Oedipus Complex in the Light of Early Anxieties, 1945" begins on p. 339) » Read Now
by Melanie Klein. 420 pgs.

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Female Sexuality: The Early Psychoanalytic Controversies (Chap. 10 "Early Stages of the Oedipus Conflict," Chap. 11 "The Evolution of the Oedipus Complex in Women," and Chap. 14 "The Pregenital Antecedents of the Oedipus Complex") » Read Now
by Russell Grigg, Dominique Hecq, Craig Smith. 320 pgs.

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The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity (Chap. 2 "The Female Oedipus Complex and the Relationship to the Body" and Chap. 3 "The Missing Link: Parental Sexuality in the Oedipus Complex") » Read Now
by Dana Breen. 304 pgs.

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In The Gender Conundrum Dana Birksted-Breen brings together for the first time key psychoanalytic papers on the subject of femininity and masculinity from the very different British, French, and American perspectives. The papers are gathered around the central issue of the interplay of body and...
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In The Gender Conundrum Dana Birksted-Breen brings together for the first time key psychoanalytic papers on the subject of femininity and masculinity from the very different British, French, and American perspectives. The papers are gathered around the central issue of the interplay of body and psyche in psychoanalysis. The editor sees the positive use of this given tension and duality as the key to real understanding of the questions currently surrounding gender identity. As well as addressing the outspoken controversy over the understanding of femininity, she shows that there has been a more silent revolution in the understanding of masculinity. Offering an international perspective, this collection of seminal papers with introductions of exemplary clarity fills a considerable gap in the literature, providing a classic text for psychoanalysis and gender studies.
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Unleashing Our Unknown Selves: An Inquiry into the Future of Femininity and Masculinity » Read Now
by France Morrow. 272 pgs.

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This "hopeful" book presents a new theory of psychosexual development, and concurrently, of psychosocial evolution. Morrow claims the sexual division of nature was a primordial organizing principle for all cultures. However, evolving qualities assigned by culture to women and men, have over the...
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This "hopeful" book presents a new theory of psychosexual development, and concurrently, of psychosocial evolution. Morrow claims the sexual division of nature was a primordial organizing principle for all cultures. However, evolving qualities assigned by culture to women and men, have over the millennia incorporated, absorbed, or superceded biological differences. The resultant schism between femininity and masculinity represents the deepest cleavage in the human species and is crippling both men and women. Morrow's hope is that the release in each sex of repressed qualities of the other sex will allow both sexes to be what they have never been--whole. "Unleashing Our Unknown Selves begins with a critique of central paradigms in contemporary social science and ends with a provocative new theory of psychosexual development. Dr. Morrow brilliantly demonstrates why men are just as damaged as women by our present patriarchal sex/gender system." Joseph L. White Univeristy of California, Irnive
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Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis: Sexual Science and Clinical Practice (Chap. 5 "Freud, Oedipus, and Homosexuality") » Read Now
by Richard C. Friedman, Jennifer I. Downey. 348 pgs.

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This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. The authors present a new perspective about male and...
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This book bridges psychoanalytic thought and sexual science. It brings sexuality back to the center of psychoanalysis and shows how important it is for students of human sexuality to understand motives that are often irrational and unconscious. The authors present a new perspective about male and female development, emphasizing the ways in which sexual orientation and homophobia appear early in life. The clinical section of the book focuses on the psychodynamics and treatment of homophobia and internalized homophobia.
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Oedipus and Locomotion, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly » Read Now
by Leonard Shengold. 9 pgs.

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...rather than the murderous impulses involved in the Oedipus complex. Oedipus father has a particular connection with...psychoanalytic theorists. Perhaps the hardest part of...
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Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-Century Fiction » Read Now
by Debra A. Moddelmog. 176 pgs.

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...that Freud's unfolding of the Oedipus complex, while marking a watershed in...Oedipus-Schmoedipus," "My Oedipus Complex," and "The Way to Colonus...he also first used the...
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Art and Psychoanalysis (Chap. Four "Art and the Oedipus Complex") » Read Now
by Laurie Adams. 384 pgs.

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