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Oedipus Complex

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The Oedipus Complex in Psychoanalysis?

So many of the things I read on psychoanalysis, none of them ever talk about the Oedipus complex. That's interesting. Well, and especially with the way it doesn't coincide with the way that desire is articulated in psychoanalysis. Do they not, is there a way that you could put them together? Yeah, I don't think you can. And again, I think that that's just, it's almost like Freud, you know, we did this episode a while ago with Anna Cornblue on immediacy - which was very fun because we got to attack all the believers in immediacy.

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