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Oedipus Complex

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Oedipus Complex

Oedipus complex represents an imprecision really? Yeah. It's certainly provocative and I think it may be, maybe the biggest problem is the most obvious one, which we haven't said, which is that psychoanalysis is not. You know, Oedipus Complex in the way popularly understood gives maybe, it gives this idea that that's like sort of what psychoanalysis is: This is the answer to every desire as it comes back to the mommy daddy me.

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