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OEDIPUS AND PSYCHE
Author(s) -
ChasseguetSmirgel Janine
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of psychotherapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.442
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1752-0118
pISSN - 0265-9883
DOI - 10.1111/j.1752-0118.1999.tb00477.x
Subject(s) - psyche , fantasy , oedipus complex , psychoanalysis , psychic , psychology , utopia , object (grammar) , mythology , perspective (graphical) , pleasure , epistemology , philosophy , psychoanalytic theory , psychotherapist , literature , art history , theology , medicine , art , linguistics , alternative medicine , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science
Rather than take up the habitual objections to Kleinian and object relations theorists’ conceptions of the Oedipus complex, a discussion is presented of two current ‘models’: the Anti‐Oedipus and the American relational perspective. Considered as Utopias (the Utopia of limitless, unconstrained pleasure and the egalitarian Utopia), these ‘models’, which apparently stand opposed, are shown to be sustained by a common underlying fantasy, that of a psyche without structure or organization. A relationship is established between the birth of the psychic apparatus and the oedipal configuration which can also be found in the classical analytic situation as well as in the biblical myth of Genesis.