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Full Paper: If There Were No Oedipus
Complex, Someone Would Have to Invent One!
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Presenter: Howard Covitz, Ph.D.
The precise characterization of the Oedipus complex has varied over the
course of psychoanalytic history. This presentation will discuss the
complexities that surrounded one clinician's choice of an Oedipal model, and
how such a choice was influenced by theories of treatment, notions of health
and the healthy sociopolitical culture. This is offered in contrast to Freud's
position that psychoanalysis is independent of any world-view.
Objectives
- To demonstrate the reasonability of alternative models of Oedipal and
superego development, with specific reference to a five-stage gender-free
model.
- To consider these models in relation to differing views of health,
diverse models of the therapeutic relationship, and socio-political
weltanschauungen.
- To examine epistemological dilemmas related to the multiplicity of
models in contemporary psychoanalytic practice.
Howard Covitz, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private analytic
practice in Melrose Park, PA. He is the former director of the Institute for
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies. His book on Oedipal paradigms was nominated
for the Gradiva Book of the Year Award by the National Association for the
Advancement of Psychoanalysis.
| Date |
May 5, 2002 |
| Time |
11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.: Presentation
1:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.: Discussion |
| Location |
Home of Susan Mathes (610-527-7424)
440 Garden Lane
Bryn Mawr, PA
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| Directions |
Come down Montgomery Ave to Morris Ave (at Bryn Mawr College and the
Baldwin School.) Turn on Morris and
pass the schools. Go through the first light at New Gulph to the first
right, just at the end of the stockade fence. You will see a sign
"Private Drive". You will turn through 2 stone pillars with
"Carisbrooke" on one. Go to first stop sign and turn left. The
house is the 5th on the left. The mailbox has the address: 440 Garden
Lane.
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Philadelphia Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology