EC Psychology And Psychiatry

The article addresses the topic of abuse from the point of view of the main psychoanalytic currents, presenting a synthesis of theorizations which, referring to the psychodynamic vertex, seeks to argue for contrasting explanatory models concerning the etiopathogenesis of the incestuous phenomenon. Consistent with this approach, we wanted to underline how the need to create prohibitions against incest constitute a structural invariant of all human cultures. We also attempted to discuss how the insistence on overcoming the Oedipus complex, although constituting a central theme of the theoretical-clinical development of early psychoanalysis, today, also in light of the studies of Infant Research and developmental psychology, has the need of a more complex reading. From the detailed analysis of the myth itself it is clear that if we attribute a central role to the story of Oedipus' family in the development of the psyche, we assume as a family model a relational reality that is probably already dysfunctional in its very foundation.

 Keywords: Oedipus Complex; Oedipal Conflict; Incest; Brotherly Complex; Etiopathogenesis

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