The Other Side of Oedipus

Bibliographic Data

ID9230264
AuthorsCordelia Schmidt-Hellerau, Cordelia Schmidt‐Hellerau (0000-0001-7622-4543, corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume74
Issue1
Pages187-217
Publication date2005-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Psychoanalytic Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0033-2828 • E-ISSN: 2167-4086
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/j.2167-4086.2005.tb00205.x
PMID15766042
OpenAlexW2068052052
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited10

The Oedipus complex has been understood as a series of conflicts between feelings of love and hate (sexuality and aggression) in the relationship between the child and his/her parents. This article presents a different view, defining oedipal struggles as conflicts between love and care, sexual desires and self- and object-preservative needs. The crucial conflict the child has to deal with is: to love the one and nevertheless to preserve the other (the rival). Further, the author distinguishes between monolithic conflicts, which are conflicts between different objects of one drive's strivings, and binary conflicts, which involve the objects of both basic drives. In three illustrative examples, she shows that monolithic conflicts can indicate a regressive movement, while binary conflicts tend to foster a progression in the analytic work

Aggression · Feeling · Human sexuality · Internal conflict · Object (grammar) · Oedipus complex · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Computer Science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Gender Studies · Law · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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