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Oedipus Complex

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Is It the Analyser That Is Not the Analyst That Mediates?

The analytic succession is itself a real critique of that investment in immediacy that Freud has when he conceives a vetapus complex. And it's the fact that, and the fact that they can't, that the patient can't look at the analyst forces language to come to the foreground, right? Like you can't focus on, oh, am I making this person happy by what I'm saying? Right. That would be a more complicated way of saying immediacy. It's not the analyst is not the analyst as object does not mediate. The fundamental rule of free association is all about the way in which that mediating principle will guide us through to the answer of finding what

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