Psychopathology I: Neurotic Psychopathology

Fourth Year Adult Psychoanalytic Training (APT)
2020-21, 3rd Trimester — Fridays, 1:45-3:15pm
Charlotte Malkmus, MA LMHC
Michael Pauly, MD

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April 9, 2021 — Oedipus Revisited: Triangularity, Gender and Culture

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48 pages

Balsam challenges the myth of Oedipus as universal and offers alternate ways of conceptualizing female development and triangulated object relations.

Tang and Smith provide us with a rich and thought-provoking paper exploring the cross-cultural relevance of the Oedipus complex, stressing different aspects of the mother-father-son triad, and in so doing introduce the importance of accounting for the parental attitudes within the triad significantly affecting the developmental experience.

Balsam, R.H. (2015). “Oedipus Rex: Where are We Going, Especially with Females?” Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 84(3):555-588.

Tang, N.M. & Smith, B.L. (1996) The Eternal Triangle across Cultures: Oedipus, Hsueh, and Ganesa. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 51:562-579