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P Dieuzeide

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PubMed1990

[The Oedipus complex and organization of the normal personality].

The parents' task is to get the child to move from his absolute and original narcissism to the awareness of and submissiveness to the principle of Reality, without prejudice to his affective life. This entails a tragic triangular situation that we shall qualify as being Oedipean, although differing from Freud's interpretation. It has a structuring psychodynamic effect requiring complex yet precise mechanisms which entirely proceed from this situation and that we have tried to study thoroughly. The child can thus reach the adult status through access to Reality, and the development of his latent faculties. The Oedipean situation is therefore unique in allowing the progressive making of a normal personality.

Child Development↗
PubMed1986

[Sophocles' Oedipus. Another reading].

Freud long hesitated on how to understand Sophocle's Oedipus--whether that tragedy was caused by Fate, or whether it was all about a sexual rivalry between the father and the son about the mother, he finally chose the latter interpretation. The clinical facts and scientific observations here related undoubtedly show--not man's longing, but his violent--almost instinctive--repulsion for incest--thus explaining the dramatic intensity of the play. The Freudian explanation must therefore be abandoned and the meaning of Sophocle's drama--unquestionably of the highest importance for the understanding of the dynamic situation involving Father, Mother and Child--must be sought elsewhere. Its philosophical value is nonetheless important and a testimony since ancient times and among very different peoples, of man's anguished and tragic quest for a Moral Law.

Adolescent↗