Oedipus Guilt

In one version of the story the innocent child, Oedipus, at the age of four falls in love with his mother and feared retaliation of his father in the form of castration anxiety, for his wishes to the mother but also because of the deadly rivalry toward father. Oedipus pushes these desires and either transform of impulses, or more pathologically neurotic find a compromise whose severity depends on the intensity of desires and the severity of the ban. So the taboo of incest arises as a result of internalized restraint. The prohibition of patricide denoted either a totem, or some other symbolic equivalent. The superego is acquired as a result of these limitations.

The intensity and difficulty to overcome the cluster, however, suggests that there is a need for further understanding of the forces behind the powerful instinct of the Oedipus tendencies. A comprehensive history describes Oedipus as an infant moved before the germ, not reach the reproductive stage innocent but already pushed, has tried and ordered in advance by his own desires and his criminal intentions and his own inner consciousness. With this conception of history, Oedipus has committed the crime before he met his father as a rival. If successful in overcoming the earliest internal taboos and punishments, then able to reach the fertility of the less crowded with the ultimate guilt. As a result it is more likely to be able to accept the principle of reality (authors”, 180).

On the other hand, if unable to overcome their earlier self-imposed sense of guilt, and then forward them to the environment and haunted by a rigorous internal tracking and sentenced to consecutive punishment, unable to overcome and the process by finding a conflict therefore similar defense mechanisms that perpetuate the unresolved drama (authors”, 180).

The healthy resolution of the Oedipus complex is the central aim of psychoanalytic work and allows a good balance between the ego, the superego and What the structure of the character's personality.

In classical terms, the search for the analysis is to help the patient to be freed from the fear stems from the castration threats and punishment and to help him translate his instincts by establishing a parent / social superego.

Freud soon found that was not enough anymore to haul the repressed material which refers to incestuous wishes towards the birth parent of the opposite sex and rivalry with the parent of the same sex, but there were other more primitive forces in operation which hindered the progress of the patient. For example, the patient instead of progressing to the expected release and denaturing, react negatively and become worse, become depressed or dramatize devastating. Classically, these types of patients entered the category of narcissistic disposals are not analyzable as it was not possible to draw up a transfer in the classical sense and therefore was unable to cope, let alone to resolve the Oedipal conflict. In such cases the conventional thinking would tend to maintain its position that there was no Oedipal conflict as the person would ...