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Author(s) -
Carta, STEFANO MARIANO
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01998.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , computer science , psychology , information retrieval
This paper deals with friendship and therapeutic alliance as a transformation\udof the libidinal love that structures the Oedipal complex. The author considers the\udrelationship between Jung and Freud as a formidable test that may shed light on their\udpersonalities and on the relevance of the Oedipal complex for both of them and for their\udparticular theories and practices. The author discusses the possibility that the Oedipal\udcomplex may be seen under a finalistic frame of reference and discusses which implicit\udgoals it may express. Such a goal has not been reached by either Freud nor Jung, but might\udbe the key to underline and recognize the fundamental importance of the ‘therapeutic\udalliance’ within the analytical situation, seen as a potential relationship between the\udselves of the patient and of the analyst springing from a transformation of libidinal love\udinto ‘friendship’ as it was described by Friedrich Nietzsche