Word: oedipuses
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...Oedipus complex about Alma Mater has long nourished English letters. From the days of Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown's Schooldays), almost the first things heard out of an English writer are usually the half-strangulated noises of one noosed in an old school tie. As an obsessive theme the Old School has no counterpart in U.S. fiction, unless it is the Home Town and the shouts of the boys who cry Wolfe...
Overtones of the Oedipus complex are subtly woven into the main theme. Mother love is a distraction on the path to perfection...
Although Freud developed the hotly debated Oedipus complex from his feelings toward his mother, Fromm believes that he concealed their intensity even from himself. And while discovery of the "wish to remain attached to Mother" was a notable event, Freud destroyed its value by restricting it to instinctual desires. In analytic terms: "His own attachment to Mother was the basis of his discovery, and his resistance to seeing his attachment was the basis for the limitation and distortion of this very discovery...
...Oedipus Recapped. Dr. May explained to his skeptical audience why he-and growing numbers of analysts in Europe and the U.S.-feel that a new approach, but not a new school, is needed. Trouble with previous analytic or "depth psychology" schools, he argued, is that they fail to get to the root of the problems that send patients to analysts nowadays. Thus both scientific progress and improvements in treatment are blocked. May & Co. are convinced that when conventional analytic treatment appears to effect a cure, in all probability something has been going on inside the patient that was different from...
...sharpest illustration of the difference between the existential and earlier approaches, Dr. May took the well-worn Oedipus situation and recapped it. To Freud, Oedipus meant that a child has a sexual attraction to the parent of the opposite sex; as a result, the child experiences guilt, fear of the other parent, and (in boys) castration anxiety. In Freudian and descendent schools in the U.S., the patient is helped to accept the idea that such transitory feelings are normal and natural, so he is relieved of his guilt and anxiety...