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The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions , by Rhona M. Fear, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 160 pp.

The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions , by Rhona M. Fear, Routledge, Abingdon and New... The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2019, 79, (416–419) © 2019 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/19 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions, by Rhona M. Fear, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 160 pp. “For the times, they are a’changing” (Bob Dylan, 1964) Once upon an Analyst, the acceptance of the oedipus complex was the shibboleth for entering Mainstream Psychoanalysis’ gate. Without it, one was an Auslander. Furthermore, it made a difference how one perceived its structure. Anna and Sigmund? Yes. Melanie? No. Or vice versa, depending on the locus of your encampment in the Psychoanalytic Civil War (Frosch, 1991). True. During the era of ego psychology, the oedipal was barely mentioned and, betimes, not even indexed in major books (Covitz, Ch. 2, 1998) but my own training in the mid-70s still measured most everything through the lens of oedipality or preoedipality. There were, of course, the Jungians, the Sullivanians, the Horneyans and the other supposedly perfidious therapists who questioned the centrality of the sexual theory of neurosis. The theoretical centrality of sexuality, Freud had argued, was a necessary bulwark against the rising tides from storms that sought to drown his ship that was “knocked http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions , by Rhona M. Fear, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 160 pp.

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 79 (3): 4 – Sep 1, 2019

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Springer Journals
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2019 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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1573-6741
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10.1057/s11231-019-09195-1
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 2019, 79, (416–419) © 2019 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis 0002-9548/19 www.palgrave.com/journals Book Reviews The Oedipus Complex: Solutions or Resolutions, by Rhona M. Fear, Routledge, Abingdon and New York, 2018, 160 pp. “For the times, they are a’changing” (Bob Dylan, 1964) Once upon an Analyst, the acceptance of the oedipus complex was the shibboleth for entering Mainstream Psychoanalysis’ gate. Without it, one was an Auslander. Furthermore, it made a difference how one perceived its structure. Anna and Sigmund? Yes. Melanie? No. Or vice versa, depending on the locus of your encampment in the Psychoanalytic Civil War (Frosch, 1991). True. During the era of ego psychology, the oedipal was barely mentioned and, betimes, not even indexed in major books (Covitz, Ch. 2, 1998) but my own training in the mid-70s still measured most everything through the lens of oedipality or preoedipality. There were, of course, the Jungians, the Sullivanians, the Horneyans and the other supposedly perfidious therapists who questioned the centrality of the sexual theory of neurosis. The theoretical centrality of sexuality, Freud had argued, was a necessary bulwark against the rising tides from storms that sought to drown his ship that was “knocked

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The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 2019

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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