Implicit and Explicit Dimensions of Oedipal Phenomenology: A Reassessment

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Notes

¹The Postgraduate Center for Mental Health was the first interdisciplinary psychoanalytic institute in the United States, established in the 1947.

²For example, in his discussion of the case of P. (Fosshage, 1990), Curtis (1990), a classical analyst, recognizes traumatic relational influences and, yet, in his mixed model, maintains that the child's universal (hard-wired) fantasies distorted her perceptions of her parents.

³I am indebted to Brothers and Lewinberg (1999) for their making me aware of the invaluable McClintock and Herdt (1997) study.

⁴This clinical vignette involves a patient that is a composite of several patients so that recognition is not possible.