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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis (2007) 67, 162–180. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ajp.3350017
The Possibility of Multiple Models for Oedipal Development
An earlier version of this paper was presented at the invited panel for Section One at the Annual Meeting of Division 39, American Psychological Association, April 21, 2006.
Howard H Covitz1
Correspondence: Howard H. Covitz, 24 Latham Parkway, Elkins Park, PA 19027-3148. e-mail: hhcovitz@aol.com
1Ph.D., ABPP, NCPsyA. Private Practice. Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics, Tyler School of Art, Temple University.
Abstract
For nearly 100 years and at least in certain prominent psychoanalytic subgroups, the Oedipus complex remained a defining construct that determined a boundary for those within and outside psychoanalysis. The time is ripe for reconsidering its culture-specific and variable nature and its failure inter alia to explain with any degree of cogency ongoing internecine conflict in a community of clinicians and theoreticians who have had the benefit of oedipally mediated training analyses.
Keywords:
history of psychoanalysis, application of the Oedipus Complex, psychoanalytic education
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