EDIPOV KOMPLEKS U PSIHOANALIZI XXI VIJEKA
OEDIPUS COMPLEX IN THE XXI CENTURY PSYCHOANALYSIS

Summary/Abstract: After defining the original Freud’s concept the author briefly sketches important later metapsychological supplements: early oedipal problematics according to Melanie Klein, concept of primary femininity as a core of feminine development, and counter oedipal situation that additionally makes the phenomenon more complex. Actual controversies range from the complete marginalization of Oedipus complex, to suggestions of more or less profound modifications of the concept. This is the reason why the author presents the concept of Oedipus complex of several eminent authors from the end of the XX to the beginning of the XXI century: Hans Loewald as one of the most important reformers of psychoanalytic thought in the end of XX century, Andre Green as widely recognized expert in the French psychoanalysis in the end of XX and in the beginning of the XXI century, Thomas Ogden as the eminent contemporary object relations theorist, and Joseph Lichtenberg whose formulations about the Oedipus complex are important integral part of the actual attachment theory. In concluding this paper the author summarises the theoretical attidudes of classical and attachment theory that are related to Edipus complex suggesting that attachment theory by marginalizing the influences of dynamic unconscious and unconscious fantasy distances psychoanalysis from its metapsychological essence.

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