11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons
Ordinary Unhappiness
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The Fear of Castration
Sally Kohn: Freud's idea of the phallus, or penis, is a structurally contingent thing that we have with anxieties towards. In subsequent traditions, there's a very and Patrick, I think is thinking about Lacan here and the idea of like having thephallus. She says if you have something called castration anxiety, you are not literally afraid that your penis is going to be physically taken from you. But in any event, what we are given is the story of these, the three primary children as they attempt to succeed their father but also chart their own identities in relation to the template given them by their father. The show takes off where all four
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