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Siegfried Zepf1, Burkhard Ullrich2, Dietmar Seel2
1Prof. em. Siegfried Zepf, M.D., Narzissenstr, 5, 66119, Saarbrücken, Germany. s.zepf@rz.uni-sb.de.
Abstract:
The authors consider whether those aspects of the Oedipus myths that have been ignored by Freud could improve our knowledge of how the Oedipus complex develops. They conclude that the myths can provide an answer to Freud's question posed on the 25 February 1914 (Nunberg and Federn, 1975, p. 234) concerning "the extent to which the Oedipus complex is a reflection of the sexual behavior of the parents" with Fenichel's (1931, p. 421) view that the "child's Oedipus complex reflects that of his parents".
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