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When he finally learns what he has done=====Definition=====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. --><!-- 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. --><!-- 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 blinds himselfintegrates the findings of his studies of the 'sexual theories of children.' -->

The existence of =====History=====<!-- References to the [[Oedipus complex explains ]] can be foudn in some of [[Freud]]'s earliest writings./ Although the term does not appear in [[childFreud]]'s sexual attaction towards the parent writings until 1910, traces of the opposite sex its origins can be found much earlier in his work, and jealously by 1910 it was already showing signs of the parent central importance that it was to acquire in all [[psychoanalytic theory]] thereafter. -->The "[[Oedipus complex]]" was first introduced by [[Freud]] in 1901; it came 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 same sexnormal developmental process. --><!-- Although the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central to Freud's theory of human development, no one paper is devoted to it.-->

Although =====''Oedipus Rex''=====The [[Oedipus complex]] is named after [[Oedipus]], a prominent figure in Greek mythology who unwittingly killed his [[father]] and married his [[mother]].<!-- One of the cornerstones of the theory of [[psychoanalysis]], the idea of the [[Oedipus complex]] is absolutely central 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's theory ]] considers a "universal event in early childhood." --><!-- Followers of human developmentthe psychologist Sigmund Freud long believed that the Oedipus complex was common to all cultures, no one paper is devoted to italthough many psychiatrists now refute this belief.-->

<!--=====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, -->

==Jacques Lacan==<!--In Lacanian terms, the [[Oedipus complex]] marks the transiiton transition 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. Although Lacan follows Freud in making the [[Oedipus complex]] the crucial moment in human development, he modifies the concept in a number of ways, both by introducing the idea of a symbolic phallic which is distinct from the biological 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 precondition for entry into the human symbolic order.--><!--===Family Complexes===[[Lacan]] first addresses the [[Oedipus complex]] in his [[{{Y}}|1938]] article on the [[family complexes|family]], where he argues that it is the last and most important of the three "family complexes." At this point his account of the [[Oedipus complex]] does not differ from [[Freud]]'s, his only originality being to emphasize its historical and cultural relativity, taking his cue from the anthropological studies by Malinowski and others.<ref>{{L}} 1938: 66</ref> It is in the 1950s that [[Lacan]] begins to develop his own distinctive conception of the [[Oedipus complex]]. Though he always follows [[Freud]] in regarding the [[Oedipus complex]] as the central complex in the [[unconscious]], he now begins to differ from [[Freud]] on a number of important points.

Failure to negotiate this transition The most important of these is that in [[Lacan]]'s view, the [[subject]] always desires the [[mother]], and the [[father]] is held by all schools always the rival, irrespective of psychoanalysis 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 be the primary cause of [neurosis[female]] [[subject]].-->

Freudians normally date ===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 [[father]], the third term which transforms the [[dual relation]] between [[mother]] and [[child]] into a [[triad]]ic [[structure]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is thus nothing less than the passage from the [[imaginary]] [[order]] to the ages [[symbolic order]], "the conquest of three the symbolic relation as such."<ref>{{S3}} p.199</ref> The fact that the passage to five years; according the [[symbolic]] passes via a complex sexual [[dialectic]] means that the [[subject]] cannot have access to the [[symbolic order]] without confronting the problem of [[Kleinsexual difference]], it occurs much earlier.

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References to The first time of the [[Oedipus complex]] can be foudn in some is characterized by the [[imaginary]] [[triangle]] of [[Freudmother]], [[child]] and [[phallus]]'s earliest writings.

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]]. However, whether this [[triangle]] is regarded as [[preoedipal]] or as a letter moment in the [[Oedipus complex]] itself, the main point is the same: namely, that prior to Fliess 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]] indicates that the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is already functioning at this time.<ref>{{L}} 1957-8: [[seminar]] of 22 January 1958</ref> -->

It initially refers to <!-- At this point, the [[mother]] is omnipotent and her [[desire]] is the [[law]]. Although this omnipotence may be seen as threatening from the very beginning, the sense of threat is intensified when the boy[[child]]'s perception own sexual [[drive]]s begin to manifest themselves (for example in infantile masturba­tion). This emergence of the [[real]] of the [[drive]] introduces a discordant note of his [[anxiety]] into the previously seductive [[imaginary]] [[triangle]].<ref>{{S4}} p. 225-6</ref> The [[child]] is now confronted with the realization that he cannot simply fool the [[mother as a sexual object and ]]'s [[desire]] with the [[imaginary]] [[semblance]] of his father as a rival, but Freud[[phallus]] - he must present something in the [[real]]. Yet the [[child]]'s description real organ (whether boy or girl) is hopelessly inadequate. This sense of this 'universal phenomenon' becomes more complicated as he integrates inadequacy and impotence in the findings face of his studies an omnipotent [[mother|maternal]] [[desire]] that cannot be placated gives rise to [[anxiety]]. Only the intervention of the 'sexual theories [[father]] in the subsequent times of childrenthe [[Oedipus complex]] can provide a real solution to this [[anxiety]].'-->

These theories are attempts ===Second Time===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 explain the phenomenon of seuxal difference, [[phallic]] [[object]] and assume [[prohibition|forbidding]] the [[subject]] access to the [[mother]]. [[Lacan]] often refers to this intervention as the existence "[[castration]]" of a primal state in which tonly maleness exists; the fact [[mother]], even though he states that a girl does , properly speaking, the operation is not hav emale genitals one of [[castration]] but of [[privation]]. <!-- This intervention is therefore mediated by the result [[discourse]] of the [[mother]]; in other words, what is important is not that the [[real]] [[father]] step in and impose the [[law]], but that this [[law]] be respected by the [[mother]] herself in both her castration, castration being an equivalent to words and her actions. The [[subject]] now sees the [[father]] as a rival for the blidning of Oedipus[[mother]]'s [[desire]].-->

a gay may beieve that she has been castrated ===Third Time===The third 'time' of the [[Oedipus complex]] is marked by a jealous the intervention of the [[real]] [[father]]. <!--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 resents can deprive her sexual feelings .-->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 her the [[child]] to persist in trying to be the [[phallus]] for the [[mother]]; it is no use competing with the [[real]] [[father]], whislt theboy fears that because he might always wins.<ref>{{S4}} pp. 208-9, 227</ref> The [[subject]] is freed from the impossible and [[anxiety]]-­provoking task of having to be castrated the [[phallus]] by a jealous realizing that the [[father]] has it. This allows the [[subject]] to [[identify]] with the [[father]]. <!--In this secondary ([[symbolic]]) [[identification]] the [[subject]] transcends the [[aggressivity]] inherent in primary ([[imaginary]]) [[identification]]. -->[[Lacan]] follows [[Freud]] in arguing that the [[superego]] is formed out of this [[Oedipal]] [[identification]] with the [[father]].<ref>{{S4}} p.415</ref>

as he comes both to a ccept ==Structure==Since the [[symbolic]] is the realm of the [[law]], and since the [[Oedipus complex]] is the reality conquest of that threat the [[symbolic order]], it has a normative and normalizing function. "The Oedipus complex is essential for the human being to be able to identify with accede to a humanized structure of the father, real."<ref>{{S3}} p.198</ref> This normative function is to be understood in reference to both [[clinic]]al [[structure]]s and the idssolution fo her ---question of [[sexuality]].

Although Lacan follows <!--===Psychopathology===[[Freud ]] argued that all psychopathological [[structure]]s could be traced to a malfunction in making the [[Oedipus compleccomplex]], which was thus dubbed "the nuclear complex of the neuroses". -->=====The Oedipus complex and clinical structures=====In accordance with [[Freud]]'s view of the [[Oedipus complex]] as the curcial moment root of all psychopathology, [[Lacan]] relates all the [[clinic]]al [[structure]]s to difficulties in human developmentthis [[complex]]. Since it is impossible to resolve the [[complex]] completely, he modifies a completely non-pathological position does not [[exist]]. The closest thing is a [[neurotic]] [[structure]]; the [[neurotic]] has come through all three times of the concept [[Oedipus complex]], and there is no such thing as a [[neurosis without [[Oedipus]]. On the other hand, [[psychosis]], [[perversion]] and [[phobia]] result when "something is essentially incomplete in the Oedipus complex."<ref>{{S2}} p.201</ref> In [[psychosis]], there is a number fundamental blockage even before the first time of waysthe [[Oedipus complex]]. In [[perversion]], both by introducing the idea [[complex]] is carried through to the third time, but instead of a symbolic phallis which is distinct from [[identifying]] with the biologicla penis[[father]], the [[subject]] [[identifies]] with the [[mother]] and by mapping it onto /or the [[imaginary]] [[phallus]], thus harking back to the [[imaginary]] [[preoedipal]] [[triangle]]. A [[phobia]] arises when the [[subject]] cannot make the transition from nature the second time of the [[Oedipus complex]] to culture described by the third time because the [[real]] [[father]] does not intervene; the [[phobia]] then functions as a substitute for the intervention of the [[real]] [[father]], thus permitting the [[subject]] to make the passage to the third time of the [[LeviOedipus complex]] (though often in an atypical way). <!--Strauss=====Psychopathology===== Failure to negotiate this transition is held by all schools of psychoanalysis to be the primary cause of [neurosis]].

A succesful negotiation 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 Oedipal triangle 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. --><!--=====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 preconditionfor entry into sexual position and his choice of a sexual object (on the human symbolic orderquestion of object choice<ref>{{S4}} p.201</ref>).-->

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