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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Although the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of human development, no one paper is devoted to it.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Failure to negotiate this transition is held by all schools of psychoanalysis to be the primary cause of [neurosis]].
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| − | Freudians normally date the [[Oedipus complex]] to the ages of three to five years; according to [[Klein]], it occurs much earlier.
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| − | References to the [[Oedipus complex]] can be foudn in some of [[Freud]]'s earliest writings.
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| − | 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.'
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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.
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| − | 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]].
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| − | A succesful negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a preconditionfor entry into the human symbolic order.
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