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Etymologically, the [[word ]] [[rival ]] refers to [[people ]] who live by the river and draw their water from the same stream. From a psychoanalytic point of view, rivalry is not simply a struggle for possession of the object, but can also be understood as having sexual, identificatory, and narcissistic aspects.
The object ensemble of rivalry can change in relation to bisexuality. Wishes for the rival'[[partial drive]]s death are repressed, and directed toward the formerly hated rival becomes a homosexual love-object. In "Neurotic Mechanisms in Jealousy[[mother]], Paranoia and Homosexuality" (1922b), Sigmund Freud posited once she is perceived as an analogy between this mechanism and the process [[object]] that is differentiated from the basis for social bonds: "In both processes[[self]], there is first the presence of jealous and accompanied by hostile impulses which cannot achieve satisfaction; and both [[rivalry]] toward the affectionate and [[father]]. This [[oedipal]] [[rivalry]] is extended to the social feelings of identification arise as reactive formations against the repressed aggressive impulses" (p. 232)hostile relationships that occur among siblings.
[[Freud]] thus attributed the decline of [[rivalry]] to [[repression]], which results from the establishing of the [[superego]] and from the confrontation between hostile [[wish]]es and the [[child]]'s [[impotence]]. [[Rivalry]] creates a link of [[ambivalence]] between the [[subject]] and an [[other]] who can always become the [[subject]]'s alter [[ego]], because the [[object]] of [[desire]] is the same for both. Putting himself in the [[place]] of this [[other]], the [[subject]] imagines himself as [[being]] dispossessed of a source of [[enjoyment]] (''[[jouissance]]'') that tolerates no sharing. The [[subject]]'s [[hatred]] is all the stronger because [[unconscious]]ly, this struggle is for possession of an [[object]] that bears the [[narcissistic]] [[illusion]] of perfect continuity between [[self]] and [[other]]. The destructiveness of the tendency away from differentiation is thus transformed into hatred and suspended through triangulation. [[Rivalry]], which tends toward [[repetition ]] and acquires its various layers through reaction formations, is one component in the [[structuring ]] of [[human ]] [[desire]].
==See Also==
* [["Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-Year-Old Boy" (Little Hans)]]
* [[Anxiety]]
* [["Contributions to the Psychology of Love"]]
* [[Counter-Oedipus]]
* [[Dead mother complex]]
* [[Family romance]]
* [[Forgetting]]
* [[Primitive horde]]
* [[Wish for a baby]]* [[Wish/yearning]]
==References==
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# [[Freud, Sigmund]]. (1909c). [[Family ]] romances. SE, 9: 235-241.# —— (1922b). [[Neurotic ]] mechanisms in [[jealousy]], [[paranoia ]] and [[homosexuality]]. SE, 18: 221-232.
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