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11: Succession: Oedipus and Failsons

Ordinary Unhappiness

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The Role of Castration in the Body

Castration is a recurrent thing. It's also the case, for example, that what would we condemn certain rightly certain types of cultural practices as a horrifying genital mutilation? So this is a thing that actually does happen on some level and children perhaps may understand that as a loss of something, right? "I personally don't know how much of this part of Freud's corpus can be rehabilitated in a certain way," he says.

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