The possibility of multiple models for Oedipal development.
For nearly 100 years and at least in certain prominent psychoanalytic subgroups, the Oedipus complex remained a defining construct that determined a boundary for those within and outside psychoanalysis. The time is ripe for reconsidering its culture-specific and variable nature and its failure inter alia to explain with any degree of cogency ongoing internecine conflict in a community of clinicians and theoreticians who have had the benefit of oedipally mediated training analyses.
Covitz
Howard H
HH
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, USA. hhcovitz@aol.com
D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004325:Dreams; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D013561:Symbolism