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	Harold Blum: Ego Psychology and Contemporary Structural Theory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The emerging oedipal phase follows on the final subphase of separation-individuation, "on the road to object constancy." Object constancy is characterised by an integration of good and bad object representations, tolerance of ambivalence, greater independence, and a complementary self-constancy.
		Unconscious intrapsychic conflicts are not simply between wishful impulse and defense, but between contradictory, internalised, opposing units of self- and object representations and their respective affective dispositions.
		The question of conflict versus deficit was one of a series of ‘polarities’, controversial issues which claimed interest and influence in contemporary psychoanalytic ego and developmental psychology.
	eseries.ipa.org.uk /prev/newsletter/98-2/blum.htm (5300 words)

	Scholarship Paper: Psychoanalysis and FIlm
		One of the fundamental points in the development of a superego is in the normal resolution of this conflict, where the child’s wishes fail, due to the threat of castration, and the child identifies with the same-sex parent so as to indirectly attain the goal of being the center of the opposite-sex parent’s world.
		The threat used in the Oedipal conflict is that of castration; Jack is trying to split up the boy and mother, literally, but this can be seen on a symbolic level for his attempt to castrate the boy and to make him lose the conflict.
		This conflict is evident enough, along with the temptation to become "like his father" which is easily seen as the temptation to give up, and to identify with the father in the actual Oedipal conflict as Vader had done with the Emperor.
	www.dspp.com /papers/kluge.htm (6567 words)

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		He had also observed that repression is not the only defense employed in psychic conflict; that a repudiated wish or conflictual memory can be accessible to consciousness and, finally, that defenses and the motives for defense against wishes that give rise to mental conflict are often themselves inaccessible to consciousness.
		The prevalent view for many years was that after the oedipal phase of life, or at least after reaching adulthood, a normal person doesn't have conflict over oedipal wishes or, alternatively, that to the extent that a normal paerson does have such conflicts as an adult, that normal person is neurotic, however slightly.
		Some conflicts were described as being between id drive derivatives on the one side and the anti-instinctual forces of the ego and superego on the opposite side.
	users.rcn.com /brill/beyond.html (4768 words)

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		The Oedipal Conflict, as I will use it in this essay, involves three principal players, the son, the mother and the son's principal rival for the mother's attention, either the father or a brother.
		The conflict is seen from the son's perspective reflecting repressed sexual attraction and unresolved love-hate feelings toward the other family members.
		As a result of these two tiers, the Oedipal conflict in the Canaanite pantheon took the form of sibling rivalry between brother gods on the lower tier, as we will see in their literature, and not a conflict between the son in the lower tier and the father in the upper tier.
	www.winternet.com /~swezeyt/bible/oedipus/swezoed1.htm (1018 words)

	Turning on the Lights: Materialism, Motherhood and the Characterless Context in Jacob's Room-Genevieve Abravanel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The residue of childhood oedipal conflict prompted both her choice of pseudonym and the way in which she understood significant areas of her life.
		For Ibsen in Rosmersholm the terms of engagement are a particularly fierce, take-no-prisoners version of the oedipal conflict fought in the family parlor.
		Oedipal desires are directed toward aspects and characteristics of the parent of the opposite sex.
	www.gwu.edu /~uhpwww/journal/nihilo_issue2/quest.htm (8357 words)

	Sing me a lullaby daddy, so I can kill you: An exposition of the structure and development of the Oedipal conflict in ...
		The constitutional triad of the Oedipal conflict is revealed in the opening scenes: Following establishing shots of a white picket fence, waving firemen, and a crossing guard helping children across the street--all images of security in middle class America--the successive scenes are of Jeffrey's father outdoors, Jeffrey's mother indoors, and Jeffrey wandering in a field.
		Here the ambivalence is representative of the conflict between the law of the father, as given by the figure of Detective Williams, not to know the mystery (or the mother), and Jeffrey’s contradictory impulse to know her.
		The film reveals itself as an exposition of the emotional intensity surrounding the resolution of the Oedipal conflict, wrapped in a narrative of a violent and sadistic psychopath and his death at the hands of a young college student.
	courses.washington.edu /freudlit/Oediblue.html (2201 words)

	NEW IDEAS ABOUT THE OEDIPUS COMPLEX
		First, there is the Oedipal triangle, whereby a child somewhere between three and a half and six wants the parent of the opposite sex and has to come to terms with the same sex.
		As David Bell puts it, 'The primitive Oedipal conflict described by Klein takes place in the paranoid-schizoid position when the infant's world is widely split and relations are mainly to part objects.
		First, Klein's views on the Oedipal situation and the Oedipus complex were developing in ways which interacted with the development of other major concepts, in particular, the depressive position, the paranoid-schizoid position and projective identification.
	human-nature.com /rmyoung/papers/pap121h.html (6288 words)

	Oedipus complex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Oedipus conflict or Oedipus complex was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness first occurring around the age of 3 and a half years (a period of development known as the genital stage in Freudian theory).
		In fact it aroused Freud's anger for he had more complex construction of the female Oedipal complex: The girl is originally attached to the mother as well, however the discovery of the absence of a penis leads to an anger at the mother, who is held responsible.
		Adler believed that the repression theory should be replaced with the concept of ego-defensive tendencies - the neurotic state derived from inferiority feelings and overcompensation of the masculine protest, Oedipal complexes were insignificant.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/O/Oedipus-complex.htm (1171 words)

	Untitled Document
		Freud used the id (translated from German as "the it") to describe that part of the psyche containing the pure aggressive and sexual drives with which we humans are born, constantly seeking expression through fantasy and behavior.
		The Oedipal conflict is not about wanting to have sex with one's parent..
		To resolve this seemingly unresolvable conflict, the daughter identifies with (adopts values of) mother, for that is the only way she can obtain the attention of her father--if she's like mom, dad should like her, too!
	ic.ucsc.edu /~vktonay/psyc41/oedipal.html (1274 words)

	The Homosocial Struggle Versus the Heterosexual "Home": The Dialectic of Desire in the Films of Nicholas Ray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Freud's Oedipal triangle is established at an early stage of life when a child attempts to situate itself with respect to a powerful father and a beloved, subservient mother (Sedgwick 22).
		Instead, the Oedipal conflict is reenacted by the adult male with the intent to reassert his power over a now symbolic 'father'.
		In the rest of the film, therefore, the men's private conflict is superceded by the contrived introduction of Jane's character and the resulting battle over her.
	www.film.queensu.ca /Critical/PhelanCox.html (3031 words)

	Learn more about Sigmund Freud in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Oedipus conflict was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness.
		He also turned to anthropological studies of totemism and argued that totemism reflected a ritualized enactment of an tribal Oedipal conflict (see Totemism and Taboo).
		Another important element of psychoanalysis is a relative lack of direct involvement on the part of the analyst, which is meant to encourage the patient to project thoughts and feelings onto the analyst.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /s/si/sigmund_freud.html (2309 words)

	PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.
		Oedipal defeat (unfair competition and humiliating impotence) cannot easily be separated from Oedipal rage, as the Sophocles play illustrates so well.
		An exploration of relationship between Oedipal shame and appearance anxiety requires an analysis which moves easily and freely from individual psychodynamics to cultural phenomena and back again.
		The subject of Oedipal shame has not, to my knowledge, been very well explored or as centrally related to the dynamics of Sophocles' plays as I believe it is. For an investigation of the concept, see Kilborne 2002 and Kilborne 2004.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/2003_kilborne01.shtml (5193 words)

	Oedipal Conflict in Canaanite Pantheon and its Influence on Judaism and Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oedipal Conflict in Canaanite Pantheon and its Influence on Judaism and Christianity
		The Oedipal Conflict in the Ancient Canaanite Pantheon and its Influence on Later Judaism and Christianity
		Part 10 Christianity as a Symbolic Resolution of the Oedipal Conflict
	www.winternet.com /~swezeyt/bible/oedipus/swezoed0.htm (164 words)

	Encounters with Oedipus Rex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Oedipal conflict is generally discussed in relation to the traditional family.
		Essentially, he needs to create some semblance of an Oedipal conflict in order to engage the father, define his own sense of being male in relation to females, and prepare himself for the transition into identifying with the father.
		Be aware of the types of conflicts you encounter with your children.
	www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us /longview/SocSci/PSYC/westra/oedipus.html (1844 words)

	The Psychogenic Theory and the Perfect Society
		This is also the condensation, which is the byproduct of every regression: the primary cause of the Psychogenic Theory is a regression from the Oedipal level, and the very denial of its existence, and the outcome is a settlement at a lower level, in this case in the placenta itself (or herself?).
		When the Oedipal child experiences the first erections, these are erotic energies, which flows from other parts of the body, where they had been until then, into the genitals.
		A breast will never be able to bring a baby to complete erotic satisfaction as, at the Oedipal level, a mother will never be able, nor she is supposed to, to bring erotic satisfaction to her child.
	www.geocities.com /psychohistory2001/ThePsychogenicTheory.html (10124 words)

	Other Voices 2.2 (March 2002), Igor Krstic, "Re-thinking Serbia: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Modern Serbian History and ...
		The Oedipal situation becomes a conflict between desires (for the mother) and the Law, which belongs to the realm of language and therefore also to the realm of the social or cultural symbolic order, which is designated as the Name of the Father.
		The Oedipal trajectory consitutes the conventional structure of the classic narrative film by allowing the male protagonist to successfully (or unsuccessfully, as for example in film noir) fulfill the trajectory through the resolution of a crisis, and subsequent movement towards social stability.
		As the representation and resolution of the Oedipal trajectory is the crucial factor for the establishment of male subjectivity in narrative films, the failure to achieve this Oedipal trajectory becomes evidence or a sign of a crisis of subjectivity within a specific historical and cultural context.
	www.othervoices.org /2.2/krstic (12050 words)

	BBC - Mark Steel Lectures
		As an example, a young woman who was disgusted by seeing a dog drink from a household glass developed symptoms where she couldn’t drink liquids.
		The anal stage comes next where the core conflict relates to the requirement of the child to control his/her own body functions to the requests of others.
		Feeling close to the mother, and developing an awareness of the relationships of others, the boy may come to perceive the father as a rival, producing feelings of both hostility and fear.
	www.open2.net /marksteel/freud_expert2.html (561 words)

	CASABLANCA part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One could argue, then, that resolution of the Oedipal conflict is only partial since a trueintegration of "good" and "bad" aspects of the father has not been achieved.
		Raymond Bellour,especially eminent among Lacanian theorists, has suggested that the Oedipus story is the masterplot of all Hollywoodnarratives.[16] A Lacanian reading of Casablanca would focus not so much on the dynamics among the characters but on howthe viewer is constructed within a larger discursive field that positions the viewer in a circuit of looks.
		Similarly, the Oedipal trajectory that leads Rick to the reconciliation with Laszlo and the elimination of Strasserrestores him to a sense of origin and identity offered by the father.
	members.tripod.com /~curtiz/article2.htm (1850 words)

	PsyArt: An Online Journal for the Psychological Study of the Arts.
		The child, in this case the daughter, in the unconscious Oedipal triangle, unable to bear the guilt and terror of wishing her mother dead and out of the way so she can marry her father, projects her anger onto the mother and re-imagines her as the angry vengeful one.
		This also satisfies another dimension of the Oedipal triangle for the child, which is, as a consequence of the vengeful feelings, a sense of guilt and the need to be punished.
		Ellen, in the Oedipal constellation of her family, feels on some level that she is to blame for her mother's death.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/2002_boydston01.shtml (2091 words)

	Kulish and Holtzman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The authors argue that “female oedipal” is an oxymoron, and propose that this constellation be named “the Persephone complex”; after the Greek myth of Persephone, which seems to capture better the typical situation of the little girl.
		Separation and psychic development are interwoven, beginning in infancy with separation of self from object, and proceeding to the establishment of object constancy and a rudimentary sense of self, the achievement of a solid core gender identity, and a sense of bodily autonomy.
		Person (1982) stressed that the little girl is more intimidated in the oedipal situation than the little boy (that is to say, less able to show overt hostility and competition) because her rival, the mother, is also her source of nurturing.
	www.psychoanalysis.net /JAPA_Psa-NETCAST/kulishandholtzma.html (8573 words)

	Review 3
		Kristeva's notion of the abject, then, was part of a more widespread effort to address these borderline states, their relation to the structuring of the subject, particularly in the fixation of borderlines in a pre-objective, and therefore pre-subjective, state that tends toward foreclosing on the paternal function, that is, toward psychosis.
		There is a conflation of the phallic and Oedipal in Bronfen's arguments that compels her to posit the omphalos as a way to break up or intercede in the masculine/feminine projective identifications that have polarised gender identities, as well as the cultural discourses of gender.
		It is useful to distinguish the phallic from the Oedipal so as to situate hysterical and borderline states more clearly in a pre-Oedipal stage which is not yet the Oedipal stage of triangulation and mourning over loss of imaginary omnipotence in both males and females.
	www.brynmawr.edu /bmrcl/Spring2001/Bronfen.html (4769 words)

	Oedipal Suffering
		In order to be free to love and to be responsible in one~ s intimacies, one must be free of infantilism, free of childish and adolescent patterns of conflict (of dependence versus independence, and of constant looking for love, and despairing of love, and desperate coping, waiting for love to disappear).
		Because of the "Oedipal" conflict, one's heart-feeling for any individual with whom one is intimate does not become full.
		Therefore, emotional-sexual relationships are never satisfactory, and cannot become satisfactory, except in individuals who persist in observing this "Oedipal" complication to the point of most fundamental self-understanding (and, thus, the moment to moment really exercised capability of transcending themselves).
	www.beezone.com /AdiDa/oedipal_suffering.html (2339 words)

	Genders OnLine Journal - Fritz bultman's Actaeon Paintings: Sexuality, Guilt, and Punishment
		The notebooks give us access to a resourceful use of myth and related iconographies which express his discomfort with a gay identity that for both familial and societal reasons could not be made evident in the finished works.
		This visualizes an irresolvable conflict, one whose complexity was reduced to a completely abstract fl and white painting titled Mask of Acteon (figure 9).
		References to turmoil over his sexual orientation, the Actaeon myth, and conflict with his father (who died in 1964) ceased to appear in the notebooks, which decreased in number and were largely devoted to reflections on art.
	www.genders.org /g34/g34_firestone.html (7335 words)

	UBC Student - Prose - Negotiated Identities
		Freudian psychoanalytic theories maintain the importance of the Oedipal conflict in establishing gender identity, using the meta-narrative that an individual must identify with one sex and desire the other.
		For example, because daughters can become surrogate mothers to their fathers, the Oedipal conflict between daughters and mothers is less threatening to daughters than the Oedipal conflict between sons and fathers.
		Marlatt is ambiguous on this key principle of the Oedipal complex.
	www.egwald.com /ubcstudent/prose/identity.php (3239 words)

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