Oedipus and the Oedipus Complex : a revision / Siegfried Zepf, Florian Daniel Zepf, Burkhard Ullrich and Dietmar Seel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zepf, Siegfried, 1937- author.

Ullrich, Burkhard, author.

Zepf, Florian Daniel, author.

Seel, Dietmar, author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Oedipus complex.

Oedipus (Tale).

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

xiii, 114 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac Books, 2017.

Summary:

In contemporary psychoanalytic thought, Freud's concept of the Oedipus complex is inclined to overshadow the interpretation of the myths surrounding Oedipus. The authors counter this situation by reversing it, utilising the Oedipus myths to interpret the Oedipus complex. In so doing, they expose it as a sheer cover story. They unmask the Oedipus complex, revealing it to be a drama staged not by Oedipus but by Jacosta, the mother, and Laius, the father. For neither Sophoctes' drama nor the Oedipus myths give any indication that Oedipus is enumoured of Jocasta and born with the intention of killing his father Laius. What the myths do mention are Jacasta's passion for Oedipus whom she loves more than his father and Laius' desire to eliminate Oedipus as his rival from birth. Freud neglected these aspects of the Oedipal myths. In uncovering them, the authors come to the conclusion that Oedipus did not have an Oedipus complex. The myths divilge that it is not the son or the daughter who precipitate rivalry with their father or mother but the parents who unconsciously complete with their child for the love of their partner. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Two questions 1

Chapter 2 The abandonment of the seduction theory-reasons 7

Chapter 3 The invention of the Oedipus complex 15

Chapter 4 The myth of the primal horde 19

Chapter 5 The myth of the dissolution of the Oedipus complex 23

Chapter 6 Oedipus myths 27

Chapter 7 Freud's blind spot 41

Chapter 8 Oedipus myths and the Oedipus complex 51

Chapter 9 The heterosexual and homosexual processing of the oedipal drama 59

Chapter 10 Unconscious oedipal messages and answers 63

Chapter 11 Oedipus Tyrannus-a cover story 69

Chapter 12 Oedipus at Colonus-the lost blindness 79.

Notes:

Originally published in Germany as Ődipus und der Ődipuskomplex. Eine Revision.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-107) and index.

ISBN:

9781782204190

1782204199

OCLC:

964357189