Synopses & Reviews
The Oedipus complex, Freud stated, is at the core of neuroses. Psychoanalysis has gone a long way since then. How do we perceive the Oedipus complex nowadays? This is the question this book intends to answer. Lacan traces a new direction: with the construction of the parental metaphor, he starts on a path going from myth to its supporting logics. The operation allowing for such a passing finds its destination in sexuation: the subjectbs position regarding the phallic function will establish sexual difference.