Read Oedipus Complex

Psycho-analysis makes the Oedipus complex the nucleus of the psycho-anthropology , with the' developing of psycho-analysis, different analysis schools have various views. The history of these researches is coextensive with that of psycho-analysis itself.Firstly, Freud adopted this complex to express the organized body of loving and hostile wishes which the child experiences towards its parents and to explain the complex as nucleus of neurosis by his theory of infantile sexuality. He makes it the foundation factor to form the individual personality.Secondly, the Kleinian school essential emphasis on the relation between mother and child during earliest stages of infancy, and according to the mold of Freud's Oedipus complex they developed the object relations theory. They maintain that a purely dualistic structure precedes the triangular relation of the Oedipus complex ,and that the conflicts originating in this first period can be analyzed without taking rivalry with a third person into account ,and try to explain that the earliest relationship of mother and child plays the fundamental part to form psychotic personality.Lastly, psychoanalytical anthropology seeks to uncover the triangular structure of the Oedipus complex, which it holds to be universal, in the most varied cultures, including those where the conjugal family is not predominant. Thus the Oedipus complex is not reducible to an actual situation-to the actual influence exerted by theparental couple over the child. Its efficacy derives from the fact that it bring into play a proscriptive agency-the prohibition against incest. In the point , Jacques Lacan structurized the complex, and extends it to 'culture' from 'nature'. He treated it with unmedical and emphasized it bars the way to naturally sought satisfaction and forms an indissoluble link between wish and law. Such a structural conception of the Oedipus complex conforms to the view that was put forward by Claude Levi-Strauss who makes the prohibition against incest the universal law and the minimal condition of the differentiation of a 'culture' from 'nature'.As a result of Freud nowhere gives any systematic account of the Oedipus complex , so the author of this paper try to read the process of its origin, formation .development and make a complete understanding to this concept.This paper totally includes five Chapters. In Chapter One, the author cleans up the process of Freud's discover of the Oedipus complex; In Chapter Tow, the author reads the Freud's view that the Oedipus complex plays a fundamental part in the structuring of the personality; In Chapter Three , the author discusses the Kleinian school's theory of object-relationship; In Chapter Four, the author in terms of the views of structuralism from Jacques Lacan and Claude Levi-Strauss reads this complex; final, author try to make a more comprehensive understanding of this complex and rise some questions.