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There's no point, I think, to doing this frontchannel--there's an enormous literature on the subject that deals, in fact, with each part of your statement and finds the evidence less than compelling. But this has been gone over here in the past as well. Time allowing, I'd be more than happy to discuss backchannel. At 03:21 PM 7/14/2000 EDT, you wrote: >no, not per se, but complications (nee fixations) which arise in the family >passion known as the oedipal complex lead to neurosis -- hence the use of >aetiology. it should not be surprise to anyone that the passions of early >childhood should have such a far-reaching formative and lasting effect on a >person. one doesn't go into analysis and have an oedipal complex thrust on >them, mythological or otherwise. it's only reasonable to point out that the >term oedipal complex was used by Freud to indicate the existence of intense >passions, which include a murderous jealously of the father, but are not >restricted to that. > >In a message dated 07/14/2000 1:44:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >[log in to unmask] writes: > ><< > The Freudian Oedipus Complex is not a mental illness. Freud posits and > apparently firmly believes that all fathers harbor the desire to kill their > sons and all sons harbor the desire to kill their fathers, the struggle > being over sexual possession of the mother. All fathers and sons, in all > cultures at all times. Unless this were _demonstrably_ true it's mythology. > >> > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%