Siblings in psychoanalysis have been understood predominately in relation to pre-oedipal and
oedipal development and this paper will aim to integrate these main theoretical perspectives.
Their topics include Tory-Papists and Ford's The Good Soldier, the silences of modernism, the motive for metaphor: the words of a sentimentalist, rewriting trauma: The Good Soldier as a modernist chronicle, not just another perplexity, hysterical detection, the discourse of indecency, and
Oedipal melancholia and masochism.
To answer these questions, three phases of Nancy Chodorow's (1944-) devised identity formation processes--pre-oedipal,
oedipal, and latency and puberty--will be used as tools.
In his earliest works Lacan makes this association by maintaining that the Law is first introduced by means of the
Oedipal complex since the father intervenes with this unity of mother/child, functioning as the reminder of the taboo on sexual desire and of castration as a punishment (Lacan, Psychoses 156).
There is also the play of anamnesis and amnesia, the quest for past and self, the search for the father, and
Oedipal configuration.
The
Oedipal confrontation between generations, one of the main aspects of the whole youth movement of 1968 and its relationship to the nation's Fascist past, is the object of the second chapter ("Contesting National Memory: Male Dilemmas and
Oedipal Scenarios").
Freudian psychoanalytic theory, as well as its critique by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, suggests, however, that the two novels are actually stories of
Oedipal sons who dare to defy the authority of their fathers by refusing to defer the fulfillment of their desire.
The episode is entitled "
Oedipal Triangle" and it airs on Wednesday, Nov.
You Are Not Who You Claim won the Milton Acorn Award;
Oedipal Dreams was nominated for a Governor-General's Award, and her work in literary magazines has won a National Magazine Award for Poetry.
Dan Algrant's well-crafted third feature focuses primarily on the younger musician, who's strikingly ff somewhat off-puttingly portrayed as a petulant man-boy acting out his
Oedipal issues in bratty self-absorption.