Just as Oedipus is not an effect of culture, the phallus is not a biological penis.ģ) If a child has a penis, this means nothing more than the child has a penis. The careful reader should follow the argument from Essays on Sexuality (1905), On Narcissism (1914), to Infantile Genital Organization (1923) in order to get a tighter grip on what distinguishes the penis from the phallus and what distinguishes the Oedipus complex from the assimilation of a cultural norm. ![]() This is a false reading of both the phallus in Freud and the Oedipus Complex. If we begin with the Representational-Dummy version where the identities are already established – male/female, father/mother, adult/child – then the Oedipus Complex becomes null and void.Ģ) Habitually, the Dummy version assumes the sex of the child is established biologically with the possession of a penis or not (male or female), while the gender of the child is acquired through culture and education. The paragraphs below situate the beginning of a critique of the Representational-Dummy version of Oedipus.ġ) The Oedipus complex was invented by Freud to explain the achievement of a sexual identity. No doubt, the explanation above was unsuccessful but not simply because my version was not the same as yours, but because the problem of representation is itself at fault. III– Critique of the Representational-Dummy Version Phallic Stage (3-5 years) as determining being a boy or girl.ġ1) The child's decisive experience occurs at the Phallic stage when the desire of the baby is oriented towards an object choice of the parent of the opposite sex and a rivalry with the parent of the same sex.ġ2) The Male Oedipus Complex begins when the baby boy desires to possess his mother and is in rivalry with his father.ġ3) The second stage of the Male Oedipus is introduced when the baby boy abandons his desire for the mother and positively identifies with the father.ġ4) The Female Oedipus Complex begins when the baby girl desires to possess her father and is in rivalry with her mother.ġ5) The second stage of the Female Oedipus is introduced when the baby girl abandons her desire for the father and positively identifies with the mother. ġ0) The child begins to discover sexual difference as having or not having a penis. ħ) The object – a breast, for example – is then identified with someone who will be later called his mother.Ĩ) The baby both seduces and is seduced by the mother in the nurturing process.ĩ) The baby comes to believe he is the unique object of affection of his mother and she is the unique object of affection for him. i.e., the baby does not distinguish between these objects as belonging to himself or another. (18months –3 years).Ħ) There is no distinction between self and other at this stage. belongs only to it.ĥ) The baby is toilet trained Anal Stage. Oral stage (21 months)Ĥ) The baby recognizes this feeding object – a breast, bottle, etc. I – Representational-Dummy Version of the Oedipus and its Critique I – Pre-Oedipal Ģ) The baby is dependent upon an object to satisfy his needs and wishes.ģ) The baby is fed. Once the aporias and paradoxes of this representational manner of proceeding has been exposed, we will present with precision in Part II the non-representational Oedipus in the manner of Freud and Lacan. We proposed that what was required to make these distinctions clear was a theory of the tableau that would go beyond a theory of representational painting.ĭrawing on these insights, here, we begin by outlining the habitual 'dummy' version of conceiving the Oedipus complex in the mode of figural representation. On the contrary, the rules and regulations for the achievement of a representation – perspective drawings – are abstract. We stated further that following the insight of the moderns from Breton to Picasso, non-representational painting is far from being 'abstract', but should be called concrete: " there are blues, greens, tracings, marks, … none of which are abstract". We further compared this difference in the paintings of Velasquez and Picasso (see web-image). ![]() On Saturday, we had made the difference between the Representational and Non-representational entry into the Oedipus by comparing it to the difference between the painting of Corbet's Origin of the World and Masson's over-painting. ![]() Groome for the Sclinic Course 2013 (first draft) Oedipus Complex for Dummies and Anti-Dummies By R.T.
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