1st Edition
Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex A Revision
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
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In contemporary psychoanalytic thought, Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex is inclined to overshadow the interpretation of the myths surrounding Oedipus. The authors counter this situation by reversing it, utilizing the Oedipus myths to interpret the Oedipus complex. In so doing they expose it as a sheer cover story. They unmask the Oedipus complex, revealing it to be a drama staged not by... Read more
Introduction , Two questions , The abandonment of the seduction theory—reasons , The invention of the Oedipus complex , The myth of the primal horde , The myth of the dissolution of the Oedipus complex , Oedipus myths , Freud's blind spot , Oedipus myths and the Oedipus complex , The heterosexual and homosexual processing of the oedipal drama , Unconscious oedipal messages and answers , Oedipus Tyrannus—a cover story , Oedipus at Colonus—the lost blindness
Biography
Dietmar Seel
