Pickmann, Claude-Noële
On the Second Freudian Oedipus Theory
- 2015.
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Once established that the phallus is the sole representative of sex in the unconscious, Freud was obliged to interest himself in the particularities of the feminine Oedipus complex. This permitted him to discover a dimension of castration that owed nothing to the father and to question the universality of his Oedipus theory.