Traumas and Oedipal Conflict: Oedipus Murdered
Chetrit-Vatine, Viviane
Traumas and Oedipal Conflict: Oedipus Murdered - 2013.
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Sophocles' account of Oedipus' early experiences is considered as the dramatic representation in three stages, of the achronologically combined psychic mobilizations in every father or mother in their encounter with every newborn child, and certainly when things are proceeding as well as possible: mobilizing the drives and ethics and narcissistically mobilizing life. Mobilization of the drives is represented by the couple Laos and Jocasta. A transformation is allowed by the critical intervention of a "thou shall not kill" from this same adult environment, an intervention embodied by the shepherd in his ethical mobilization and then by the Corinthian royal couple, the good enough parents, stimulated by their life narcissism, whose murderous and incestuous wishes remain in the domain of the unconscious fantasy. Early experiences with the surrounding environment inevitably impact on the receptive qualities of the Oedipus complex, qualities that for the author originate in the traumatic aspect of the "anthropological fundamental" encounter. This consequently raises the question of what will increasingly be required of the analyst. His "committed neutrality" will have to be based on an asymmetric and affect-laden responsibility for the other, his patient.
Traumas and Oedipal Conflict: Oedipus Murdered - 2013.
76
Sophocles' account of Oedipus' early experiences is considered as the dramatic representation in three stages, of the achronologically combined psychic mobilizations in every father or mother in their encounter with every newborn child, and certainly when things are proceeding as well as possible: mobilizing the drives and ethics and narcissistically mobilizing life. Mobilization of the drives is represented by the couple Laos and Jocasta. A transformation is allowed by the critical intervention of a "thou shall not kill" from this same adult environment, an intervention embodied by the shepherd in his ethical mobilization and then by the Corinthian royal couple, the good enough parents, stimulated by their life narcissism, whose murderous and incestuous wishes remain in the domain of the unconscious fantasy. Early experiences with the surrounding environment inevitably impact on the receptive qualities of the Oedipus complex, qualities that for the author originate in the traumatic aspect of the "anthropological fundamental" encounter. This consequently raises the question of what will increasingly be required of the analyst. His "committed neutrality" will have to be based on an asymmetric and affect-laden responsibility for the other, his patient.
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