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{{TopTopp}}[[complexe ]] d'Oedipe{{Bottom}} =====Sigmund Freud===== =====''Oedipus Rex''=====The term was named after the character in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex who accidentally kills his father and marries his mother. =====Early Work=====In a letter to [[FLiess]] dated 17 October 1897, Freud remarks that [[Sophocles]]'s ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' has such "gripping power" because being in love with one's [[mother]] and jealous of one's [[father]] is "a universal event in early childhood."<ref>{{F}} 1985.</ref> The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is first introduced by [[Freud]] in 1901; it comes to acquire central importance in [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory]] thereafter. =====Unconscious Desire=====The [[Oedipus complex]] is a concept used by [[Freud]] to describe the [[unconscious]] ([[sexual difference|sexual]]) [[desire]] of the [[child]] -- especially the [[male]] [[child]] -- for the parent of the opposite sex, and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex. The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a term developed by Sigmund Freud to designate the attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own. =====Psychosexual Development===== The [[Oedipus complex]] is a concept used by [[Freud]] in his theory of the [[sexual difference|psychosexual stages]] of [[childhood]] [[development]].The [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to [[Freud]]'s theory of the [[sexual difference|psychosexual stages]] of [[childhood]] [[development]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is the central concept in [[Freud]]'s theory of the [[sexual difference|psychosexual stages]] of [[childhood]] [[development]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] occurs in the [[phallic stage]] of [[sexual difference|psychosexual stages]] [[development]].
==Sigmund Freud==
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The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a concept used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to refer to the [[unconscious]] [[sexual difference|sexual]] [[desire]] of the [[child]] - especially a [[male]] [[child]] - for the parent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility and [[rivalry]] with the parent of the same sex.
<!-- The [[Oedipus complex]] was defined by [[Freud]] as an [[unconscious]] set of loving and hostile [[desire]]s which the [[subject]] experiences in relation to its [[parents]]; the [[subject]] [[desire]]s one parent, and thus enters into rivalry with the [[other]] parent. In the "positive" [[form]] of the [[Oedipus complex]], the [[desire]]d parent is the parent of the opposite sex to the [[subject]], and the parent of the same sex is the rival. / The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a term developed by [[Sigmund Freud]] to designate the attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own. -->
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The complex is named after [[Oedipus]], a prominent [[figure]] in Greek mythology who unwittingly killed his [[father]] and [[married]] his [[mother]].
<!-- The term is named after the [[Oedipus]], a prominent figure in Greek mythology who unwittingly unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Taking his cue from the ancient Greek [[tragedy]] by [[Sophocles]], [[Oedipus Rex]], where [[Oedipus]] unwittingly kills his [[father]] and becomes king by marrying his [[mother]], [[Freud]] suggested that our deepest [[unconscious]] [[desire]] is to [[murder]] our [[father]] and marry our [[mother]]. -->
<!-- One of the cornerstones of the [[theory]] of [[psychoanalysis]], the [[idea]] of the [[Oedipus complex]] derives from the Greek legend that tells how [[Oedipus]] unwittingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. When he finally learns what he has done, he blinds himself./ It comes from the Greek myth of Oedipus, a Greek hero who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. / The term derives from ''[[Oedipus]]'' was a prominent figure in Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother. / [[Freud]] attributes the "gripping [[power]]" of [[Sophocles]]' play, ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' to its depiction of what [[Freud]] considers a "universal [[event]] in early [[childhood]]." -->
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<!-- The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is first introduced by [[Freud]] in 1901; it comes to acquire central importance in [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory]] thereafter. -->
<!-- The "[[Oedipus complex]]" was posited by [[Sigmund Freud]] as the central organizing [[principle]] of [[psychosexual]] development. crucial [[stage]] in the normal [[developmental]] [[process]]. -->
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===Phallic Phase===
The [[Oedipus complex]] emerges in the [[third]] year of [[life]] and then declines in the fifth year, and coincides with the [[phallic stage]] of [[development|psychosexual development]].
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=====Castration Complex=====
The hostility towards the father arouses the [[fear ]] that the father will remove the offending sex [[organ ]] of the boy, called [[castration anxiety]].The [[castration complex]] arises from the boy's assumption that, because girls are without a [[penis]], they must have suffered castration. The [[reality]] of castration is borught home to the boy when he sees the sexual anatomy of the [[girl]], which is [[lacking]] the protruding genitals of the male. The girl appears [[castrated]] to the boy. "If that could happen to her, it could also happen to me," is what he thinks. As a result of castration anxiety, the boy represses his incestuous desire for the mother an his hostility for the father, and the Oedipus complex [[disappears]].--><!-- the fact that a girl does not hav emale genitals is therefore the result of her castration, -->
The reality most important of castration these is borught home that in [[Lacan]]'s view, the [[subject]] always desires the [[mother]], and the [[father]] is always the rival, irrespective of whether the [[subject]] is [[male]] or [[female]]. Consequently, in [[Lacan]]'s account the [[male]] [[subject]] experiences the [[Oedipus complex]] in a radically asymmetrical way to the boy when he sees [[female]] [[subject]]. --><!-- In an early encyclopaedia [[article on the family]] (1938) [[Lacan]] adopted a fairly orthodox Freudian [[understanding]] of the Oedipus complex, and it was not until the 1950s and through the influence of Lévi-[[Strauss]] that Lacan began to develop his own distinctive '[[structural]]' [[model]] of the sexual anatomy [[complex]]. For [[Lacan]], the [[Oedipus complex]] is primarily a symbolic structure. When two [[people]] live together or get married they do so forvery personal and intimate reasons, but at the same time there is a wider [[social]] or symbolic aspect to this relationship. A relationship or [[marriage]] concerns not just the two people involved but also a [[whole]] social network of friends, relations and institutions. Thus, personal relationships situate men and women in a symbolic circuit of social [[meanings]]. According to [[Lacan]], therefore, we must distinguish between the real people involved and [[the symbolic]] [[structures]] that organize relationships between men and women. In our [[society]] the primary structure that defines our symbolic and unconscious relations is the Oedipus complex. More precisely the [[Oedipus complex]] represents a triangular structure that breaks the binary relationship established between the [[mother]] and [[child]] in [[the imaginary]], although, as we will see, the imaginary is never simply a dual structure - there is always a third element involved. The infant's earliest experiences are characterized by absolute [[dependence]] upon the mother as she fulfils the child's [[needs]] of feeding, caring and nurturing. At the same time the child is faced with the enigma around the (m)other's desire - What am I in the Other's desire? The answers the child comes up with will be crucial to its resolution of the [[Oedipus complex]]. -->===Symbolic Structure===The [[Oedipus complex]] is, for [[Lacan]], the paradigmatic triangular [[structure]], which contrasts with all [[dual relation]]s (though see the final paragraph below). The key function in the [[Oedipus complex]] is thus that of the girl[[father]], the third term which transforms the [[dual relation]] between [[mother]] and [[child]] into a [[triad]]ic [[structure]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is lacking thus [[nothing]] less than the passage from the [[imaginary]] [[order]] to the [[symbolic order]], "the protruding genitals conquest of the malesymbolic relation as such."<ref>{{S3}} p.199</ref> The fact that the passage to the [[symbolic]] passes via a complex sexual [[dialectic]] means that the [[subject]] cannot have access to the [[symbolic order]] without confronting the problem of [[sexual difference]].
===Times===In ''[[Seminar|The girl appears castrated Seminar, Book V]]'', [[Lacan]] analyzes this passage from the [[imaginary]] to the boy[[symbolic]] by [[identification|identifying]] three "[[times]]" of the [[Oedipus complex]], the sequence being one of [[logical]] rather than [[chronological]] priority.<ref>{{L}} 1957-8: [[seminar]] of 22 January 1958</ref><!-- The first time of the [[Oedipus complex]] is characterized by the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] of [[mother]], [[child]] and [[phallus]]. prior to the invention of the [[father]] there is never a purely [[dual relation]] between the [[mother]] and the [[child]] but always a third term, the [[phallus]], an [[imaginary]] [[object]] which the [[mother]] [[desire]]s beyond the [[child]] himself (S4, 240-1). [[Lacan]] hints that the presence of the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]] as a third term in the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] --><!-- In the previous [[seminar]] of 1956-7, [[Lacan]] calls this the [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]]. "If However, whether this [[triangle]] is regarded as [[preoedipal]] or as a moment in the [[Oedipus complex]] itself, the main point is the same: namely, that could happen prior to herthe invention of the [[father]] there is never a purely [[dual relation]] between the [[mother]] and the [[child]] but always a third term, the [[phallus]], it could also happen to mean [[imaginary]] [[object]] which the [[mother]] [[desire]]s beyond the [[child]] himself (S4," 240-1). [[Lacan]] hints that the presence of the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]] as a third term in the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] indicates that the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is what he thinksalready functioning at this time.<ref>{{L}} 1957-8: [[seminar]] of 22 January 1958</ref> -->
====Second====
The second time of the [[Oedipus complex]] is characterized by the intervention of the [[imaginary]] [[father]]. The [[father]] imposes the [[law]] on the [[mother]]'s [[desire]] by denying her access to the [[phallic]] [[object]] and [[prohibition|forbidding]] the [[subject]] access to the [[mother]]. [[Lacan]] often refers to this intervention as the "[[castration]]" of the [[mother]], even though he states that, properly [[speaking]], the operation is not one of [[castration]] but of [[privation]].
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====Third====
The third 'time' of the [[Oedipus complex]] is marked by the intervention of the [[real]] [[father]].
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The father appear as the one who reinstates the phallus as the desired object of the mother, rather than as the terrifying, [[castrating]], omnipotent father who can deprive her.
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By showing that he has the [[phallus]], and neither exchanges it nor gives it,<ref>{{S3}} p. 319</ref>, the [[real]] [[father]] [[castration|castrates]] the [[child]], in the sense of making it [[impossible]] for the [[child]] to persist in trying to be the [[phallus]] for the [[mother]]; it is no use competing with the [[real]] [[father]], because he always wins.<ref>{{S4}} pp. 208-9, 227</ref> The [[subject]] is freed from the impossible and [[anxiety]]-provoking task of having to be the [[phallus]] by realizing that the [[father]] has it. This allows the [[subject]] to [[identify]] with the [[father]].
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[[Lacan]] follows [[Freud]] in arguing that the [[superego]] is formed out of this [[Oedipal]] [[identification]] with the [[father]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 415</ref>
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==Structure==
Since the [[symbolic]] is the realm of the [[law]], and since the [[Oedipus complex]] is the conquest of the [[symbolic order]], it has a [[normative]] and normalizing function. "The Oedipus complex is essential for the human being to be able to accede to a humanized structure of the real."<ref>{{S3}} p.198</ref> This normative function is to be [[understood]] in reference to both [[clinic]]al [[structure]]s and the question of [[sexuality]].
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===Psychopathology===
[[Freud]] argued that all psychopathological [[structure]]s could be traced to a malfunction in the [[Oedipus complex]], which was thus dubbed "the nuclear complex of the neuroses".
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The Oedipus complex or conflict is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain the origin of certain neuroses in childhood [[Freud]] argued that all psychopathological [[structure]]s could be traced to a malfunction in the [[Oedipus complex]], which was thus dubbed "the nuclear complex of the neuroses". The Oedipus complex is closely connected to the castration complex. Resolution of the Oedipus complex is believed to occur by identification with the parent of the same sex and by the [[renunciation]] of sexual interest in the parent of the opposite sex. Freud considered this complex the cornerstone of the superego and the nucleus of all human relationships.
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=====The Oedipus complex and sexuality=====
It is the particular way the [[subject]] navigates his passage through the [[Oedipus complex]] that determines both his assumption of a [[sexual position ]] and his [[choice ]] of a sexual object (on the question of object choice<ref>{{S4}} p.201</ref>). ------------- In his [[seminar]] of 1969-70, [[Lacan]] re-examines the [[Oedipus complex]], and analyses the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]] as one of [[Freud]]'s [[dream]]s.<ref>{{S17}} Ch. 8</ref> In this [[seminar]] (though not for the first time<ref>{{S7}}</ref>) [[Lacan]] compares the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]] with the other [[Freud]]ian [[myth]]s (the [[myth]] of the [[father]] of the horde in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'', and the [[myth]] of the murder of Moses<ref>{{F}} 1912-13; 1939a</ref>) and argues that the [[myth]] of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' is structurally opposite to the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]]. In the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]], the murder of the [[father]] allows [[Oedipus]] to enjoy sexual relations with his [[mother]], whereas in the [[myth]] of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' the murder of the [[father]], far from allowing access to the [[father]]'s [[women]], only reinforces the [[Law]] which forbids [[incest]].<ref>{{S7}} p.176</ref> [[Lacan]] argues that in this respect the [[myth]] of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' is more accurate than the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]]; the former shows that [[enjoyment]] of the [[mother ]]is impossible, whereas the latter presents [[enjoyment]] of the [[mother]] as forbidden but not impossible. In the [[Oedipus complex]] a prohibition of ''[[jouissance]]'' thus serves to hide the impossibility of this ''[[jouissance]]''; the [[subject]] can thus persist in the [[neurotic]] [[illusion]] that, were it not for the [[Law]] which forbids it, ''[[jouissance]]'' would be possible. ------------- In his reference to fourfold models, [[Lacan]] makes an implicit criticism of all triangular models of the [[Oedipus complex]]. Thus, though the [[Oedipus complex]] can be seen as the transition from a [[dual relation]]ship to a [[triangular]] [[structure]], [[Lacan]] argues that it is more accurately represented as the transition from a [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]]) to an [[Oedipal]] [[quaternary]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[father]]-[[phallus]]). Another possibility is to see the [[Oedipus complex]] as a transition from the [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]]) to the [[Oedipal]] [[triangle]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[father]]). __NOTOC__ One of the cornerstones of the theory of [[psychoanalysis]], the idea of the [[Oedipus complex]] derives from the Greek legend that tells how [[Oedipus]] unwittingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta. When he finally learns what he has done, he blinds himself. The existence of the Oedipus complex explains the [[child]]s sexual attaction towards the parent of the opposite sex and jealously of the parent of the same sex. Although the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of human development, no one paper is devoted to it. - In Lacanian terms, the [[Oedipus complex]] marks the transiiton from a dual and potentially incestuous relationship with the mother to a triadic relationship in which the role and authority of the father or the [[Name-of-the-Father]] are recognized. Failure to negotiate this transition is held by all schools of psychoanalysis to be the primary cause of [neurosis]]. Freudians normally date the [[Oedipus complex]] to the ages of three to five years; according to [[Klein]], it occurs much earlier. -- References to the [[Oedipus complex]] can be foudn in some of [[Freud]]'s earliest writings. In a letter to Fliess It initially refers to the boy's perception of his mother as a sexual object and of his father as a rival, but Freud's description of this 'universal phenomenon' becomes more complicated as he integrates the findings of his studies of the 'sexual theories of children.' These theories are attempts to explain the phenomenon of seuxal difference, and assume the existence of a primal state in which tonly maleness exists; the fact that a girl does not hav emale genitals is therefore the result of her castration, castration being an equivalent to the blidning of Oedipus. a gay may beieve that she has been castrated by a jealous mother who resents her sexual feelings for her father, whislt theboy fears that he might be castrated by a jealous father. as he comes both to a ccept the reality of that threat and to identify with the father, the idssolution fo her --- Although Lacan follows Freud in making the [[Oedipus complec]] the curcial moment in human development, he modifies the concept in a number of ways, both by introducing the idea of a symbolic phallis which is distinct from the biologicla penis, and by mapping it onto the transition from nature to culture described by [[Levi-Strauss]]. A succesful negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a preconditionfor entry into the human symbolic order. [[Category:Dictionary]] ------------------- ==Oedipus complex== ==Sigmund Freud== ==Jacques Lacan== ==The Oedipus complex and clinical structures== ==The Oedipus complex and sexuality==
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In his [[seminar]] of 1969-70, [[Lacan]] re-examines the [[Oedipus complex]], and analyzes the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]] as one of [[Freud]]'s [[dream]]s.<ref>{{S17}} Ch. 8</ref> In this [[seminar]] (though not for the first time<ref>{{S7}}</ref>) [[Lacan]] compares the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]] with the other [[Freud]]ian [[myth]]s (the [[myth]] of the [[father]] of the [[horde]] in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'', and the [[myth]] of the murder of [[Moses]]<ref>{{F}} 1912-13; 1939a</ref>) and argues that the [[myth]] of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' is structurally opposite to the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]]. In the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]], the murder of the [[father]] allows [[Oedipus]] to [[enjoy]] [[sexual relations]] with his [[mother]], whereas in the [[myth]] of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' the murder of the [[father]], far from allowing access to the [[father]]'s [[women]], only reinforces the [[Law]] which forbids [[incest]].<ref>{{S7}} p. 176</ref> [[Lacan]] argues that in this respect the [[myth]] of ''[[Totem and Taboo]]'' is more accurate than the [[myth]] of [[Oedipus]]; the former shows that [[enjoyment]] of the [[mother ]]is impossible, whereas the latter presents [[enjoyment]] of the [[mother]] as [[forbidden]] but not impossible. In the [[Oedipus complex]] a [[prohibition]] of ''[[jouissance]]'' thus serves to hide the [[impossibility]] of this ''[[jouissance]]''; the [[subject]] can thus persist in the [[neurotic]] [[illusion]] that, were it not for the [[Law]] which forbids it, ''[[jouissance]]'' would be possible.
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In his reference to fourfold models, [[Lacan]] makes an implicit criticism of all triangular models of the [[Oedipus complex]]. (** Thus, though the [[Oedipus complex]] can be seen as the transition from a [[dual relation]]ship to a [[triangular]] [[structure]], [[Lacan]] argues that it is more accurately represented as the transition from a [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]]) to an [[Oedipal]] [[quaternary]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[father]]-[[phallus]]). **) [[Another]] possibility is to see the [[Oedipus complex]] as a transition from the [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[phallus]]) to the [[Oedipal]] [[triangle]] ([[mother]]-[[child]]-[[father]]).
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==See Also==
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* [[Castration complex]]
* [[Desire]]
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* [[Development]]
* [[Father]]
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* [[Law]]
* [[Mother]]
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* [[Name-of-the-Father]]
* [[Phallus]]
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