Reflections on the Oedipus Complex

Oedipus Complex and Development of Self

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9230342
AutoresHans W Loewald (65 Trumbull St., New Haven, Conn. 06510, autor de correspondencia)
Año1985
Volumen54
Número3
Páginas435-443
Fecha de publicación1985-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21674086.1985.11927112
PMID4023124
OpenAlexW2417051173
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas1

The emergence of oedipal object relations is a crucial stage in the development toward individuated adult mentation, distinguished from early stages of psychic life which are transindividual (as in Kohut's "selfobject transference"). The latter continue to function as deep layers of individual psychic life; but the development of oedipal/postoedipal object relations, and advanced psychic structure and functioning based on it, represents a norm in psychoanalytic psychology and therapy. The poet John Keats's ideas about the formation of the individual "soul" (identity as an individual) by the intervention of "circumstances" are cited to illustrate this aspect of the oedipus complex

Epistemology · Object (grammar) · Object relations theory · Oedipus complex · Psychic · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Soul · Subject (documents) · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications