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Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis

Oedipus: The Most Crucial Concept in Psychoanalysis

Pettigrew, David
Nasio, Juan-David
Raffoul, François

Paperback

Series: Suny Contemporary French Thought

PhilosophyGeneral PsychologySexuality

ISBN10: 1438433603
ISBN13: 9781438433608
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jul 2 2011
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

First English translation of Nasio's groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.

2011 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In this long-awaited book, Juan-David Nasio, one of France's leading Lacanian psychoanalysts, argues that the Oedipus complex represents the core of psychoanalysis as well as the fundamental constitution of the human being. Defying contemporary claims of an alleged death of psychoanalysis, and in contrast with recent attempts to minimize the relevance of Oedipus for the psyche, Nasio approaches Oedipus as a legend that helps to make sense of the origins of sexual identity and neurotic suffering. Nasio makes the provocative claim that the entirety of the psychoanalytical corpus, all of its concepts, including repression, sublimation, the theory of the drives, desire, as well as the phantasm of the phallus and castration anxiety, revolves around the idea that the child desires the parents. However, insofar as such desire is bound to be contradicted, frustrated, and repressed, Nasio redefines psychoanalysis in light of Oedipus as a discipline concerned with the very limits of human desire.

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