Oedipus and the Paternal Metaphor

Authors

  • Ana Žerjav

Abstract

The article shows the importance of the paternal metaphor and the function of the father in psychoanalysis, as well as some misunderstandings that can occur regarding this function in philosophy, namely Deleuze and Guattari's critique of the father as a normative function of castration. It focuses on Freud's and Lacan's conception of the Oedipus complex and underlines some crucial changes that Lacan introduced while reading Freud's work and while constantly returning in his teaching to his own previous conceptions. Finally, the article argues that it is not possible to ignore the function of the father and aspire to create a new sort of psychoanalytic practice by entirely avoiding the difficult and constitutive role of this function.

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Author Biography

Ana Žerjav

Ana Žerjav, former researcher at the Institute of Philosophy, SRC SASA; clinical formation at Ecole de Psychanalyse des Forums du Champ lacaninen, Paris, and researcher at the Theory Department of the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. She is the translator ofthe works of Jacques Lacan, Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, and Jean Claude-Milner into Slovene. She has published essays on psychoanalysis and contemporary philosophy.

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Published

2011-04-06

How to Cite

Žerjav, A. (2011). Oedipus and the Paternal Metaphor. Filozofski Vestnik, 31(2). Retrieved from https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/3229

Issue

Vol. 31 No. 2 (2010): Les pouvoirs des désirs indicibles / The Powers of the Unsayable Desires

Section

Corps et pensée / Body and Thought

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