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The Oedipus Complex and Desire

I think it's interesting because I think their conception of desire, and this maybe we're getting to the second question. So if you want to hold me back and, and re-territorialize me, that's what I mean. But I think it isn't their position that desire is purely productive. Yeah. It's not so,. whereas I would want to see it desire linked to an absence or linked to like the absence of an absent object, right? Like they would see, no, desire just produces whatever it does, but it's not, that object is not absent. The Oedipus complex is re-articulated culturally in a number of different ways

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