Word: oedipus
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...idea of infant sexuality and of the Oedipus complex can be accepted with a good deal more equinamity than the idea that the most precious and inviolate of entities--personal relations--is actually a messy jangle of misapprehensions, at best an uneasy truce between powerful solitary fantasy systems. Even for especially) romantic love is fundamentally solitary, and has as core a profound impersonality. The concept of transference at once destroys faith in personal relations and explains why they are tragic--we cannot knew each other... A horrible kind of predestination hovers over each new attachment we form. 'Only connect...
...title story of that collection leads off this regathering of many of the author's best-known works, including The Long Road to Ummera, The Bridal Night and My Oedipus Complex, one of the most amusing pieces ever written about a small boy's anger over having to share his mother with her husband. Guests of the Nation suppresses anger with a disillusionment that teeters on mawkishness. Belcher and Awkins are two British soldiers who have become rather friendly with their Irish nationalist captors. The order to execute the pair is carried out with misgivings, especially since...
Nevertheless, the men and women who laid the foundations of "the talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...