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Oedipus Complex

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Is Sublimation a Discipline of Mediation?

Lacan: I think the critique of immediacy is there in the concept of sublimation, like there's no just immediate desire for something. That thing that you desire has to have undergone sublimation or else you can't start to desire it. When he invents Oedipus complex, he is inventing a pure immediate relation that I don't think can exist. Yeah. And his point is, in his point that, that even to have sex, you have to, the object has to undergo sublimation. Right? It's through mediation that we relate to the object. But when Freud discovers or invents this new kind of relationship with an object - and

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