By Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
This booklet research the position of the Oedipus advanced within the psyche and relate it to pressing problems with social and cultural existence, historic and current."Freud and feminine Sexuality" (1975), the 1st paper incorporated within the current assortment, resulted from the talk which at the e-book of girl Sexuality. the next articles, written after 1983 and, for the main half, unpublished on the time while the writer used to be invited to organize this quantity, conceal quite a lot of matters, yet are associated with one another and to the outlet paper through an underlying topic: The function of the daddy and the mummy within the Psyche.
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I will return to this point. Motherhood is consubstantial with female psychosexuality whether or not it results in the birth of a child. In Thalassa (1924), Ferenczi upholds the hypothesis that the return to intra-uterinc life constitutes a universal human fantasy and is eventu ally the biological underpinning of the Oedipai wish. By studying the case of a male patient, I have been able to place the fantasy of draining the mother's insides, which is central to Klein's work, at the heart of the problem.
What they are clearly aiming at by every possible means is the coales cence of two germ-cells which are differentiated in a particular way" (1920, p. 44). It is difficult to understand why Freud, in his attempt to penetrate the ultimate goal of the instinct, accepts that Eros is carried along by the reproductive instinct, for which there quite clearly exists a preformed object, and why he rejects the idea of a "natural" attraction between the sexes in the interests of procreation, an innate attraction, in my view, which the prematuration period of the human being would place in a state of latency, seeking substitutes for it, finding satisfaction wherever it could be obtained, namely through the exercise of the vital oral and anal functions.
Then the patient found herself making glasses from teaspoonsfor children who could not see very well. It now becomes clearly recognizable that her curiosity induced her to penetrate the primal scene with her eyes and teeth, but also to absorb, to incorpo rate what she saw, for which she was punished by the Nazi guard. The number 1516 represented the Saturday 15th and the Sunday 16th in her fantasy, since I had given her a Friday 14th and a Saturday 15th as 41 T H E FEMININITY O F T H E ANALYST the dates of my absences.