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Is Parent‐Offspring Conflict Sex‐Linked? Freudian and Darwinian Models
Author(s) -
Daly Martin,
Wilson Margo
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1990.tb00912.x
Subject(s) - freudian slip , psychoanalytic theory , parent–offspring conflict , oedipus complex , psychology , offspring , contingency , interpretation (philosophy) , mistake , psychoanalysis , rivalry , darwinism , social psychology , developmental psychology , epistemology , philosophy , pregnancy , linguistics , macroeconomics , biology , political science , law , economics , genetics
Freud's Oedipal theory sees parent‐offspring conflict as a within‐gender rivalry, whereas most modern evolutionary models interpret it as a gender‐blind disagreement about resource allocation New analyses of family homicides and a critical review of prior evidence do not support the central Freudian claim of a same‐sex contingency in parent‐offspring antagonism during the Oedipal phase Several errors of fact and interpretation in psychoanalytic theorizing about family relations are discussed We argue that psychoanalysts mistake substantive conflicts between nonrelatives for symbolic manifestations of family conflicts