New studies of old villains : a radical reconsideration of the Oedipus complex / Paul Verhaeghe ; with a foreword by Juliet Mitchell.

Author/creator Verhaeghe, Paul
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Other Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxix, 118 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction -- Father -- Freud's Oedipal theory as a neurotic solution -- Little Hans and big papa -- Installation of the father and the therapeutic result -- Triple duplicity : fantasy, theory, society -- The myth of the primal horde as a safeguard for the theory -- Family romances -- Mother -- Moses : Credo quia absurdum -- Lacan's crocodile mother -- The "hystorical" version -- The analytical version -- Jouissance and passivity -- Jouissance -- Introduction -- Jouissance? -- Role of the mother : seat of a forbidden enjoyment -- Role of the father : structural operator of the prohibition -- Identity -- Introduction -- Identitas and separation anxiety -- Difference and fusion anxiety -- From dualistic-imaginary to triangular-symbolic -- Conclusion: The sinthome -- Believing in one's symptom -- Creatio ex nihilo : le sinthome.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [101]-105) and index.
LCCN 2008031790
ISBN9781590512821
ISBN1590512820

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Joyner General Stacks BF175.5.O33 V47 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold