1st Edition

Oedipus and the Couple

By Francis Grier Copyright 2005
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

This title consists of a diverse series of contributions and reflections on couples and the Oedipus complex from leading psychotherapists and psychoanalysts in the couples field. All contributors base their theories on a contemporary Kleinian/object-relations psychoanalytic viewpoint and this helps the reader feel that there is a basic underlying unity to facilitate meaningful links between the... Read more
Series Editor’s Preface , Introduction , On being able to be a couple: the importance of a “creative couple” in psychic life 1 , Reflective space in the intimate couple relationship: the “marital triangle” , The couple, their marriage, and Oedipus: or, problems come in twos and threes , Coming into one’s own: the oedipus complex and the couple in late adolescence , Shadows of the parental couple: oedipal themes in Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander , “It seemed to have to do with something else …” , The painful truth , The oedipus complex as observed in work with couples and their children , Oedipus gets married: an investigation of a couple’s shared oedipal drama , No Sex couples, catastrophic change, and the primal scene *

Biography

Francis Grier