Simply Freud by Stephen Frosh

Author:Stephen Frosh [Frosh, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO021000, PSY000000
ISBN: 9781943657766
Publisher: Simply Charly
Published: 2018-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

It appeared [that] the sexual instinct itself must be something put together from various factors, and that in the perversions it falls apart, as it were, into its components. The perversions were thus seen to be on the one hand inhibitions, and on the other hand dissociations, of normal development. Both these aspects were brought together in the supposition that the sexual instinct of adults arises from a combination of a number of impulses of childhood into a unity, an impulsion with a single aim.

One of the difficulties encountered when reading the Three Essays is that in the various new editions Freud offered many important elaborations of his ideas without changing the main text. The result is a wonderfully “modernist” book, in which there is a core narrative (the 1905 version) and what author Steven Marcus, referring to the “Dora” case but equally applicable here, called “those stop-you-dead-in-your-tracks footnotes that he was so expert in using strategically.” Some of these refer to the notion of the Oedipus complex. This had long been in Freud’s armory, since he commented to Fliess in 1897 that the continuing power of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex was due to how “the Greek legend seizes on a compulsion which everyone recognizes because he feels its existence within himself. Each member of the audience was once, in germ and in phantasy, just such an Oedipus.” What does this mean? “I have found, in my own case too, falling in love with the mother and jealousy of the father, and I now regard it as a universal event of early childhood,” Freud told Fliess. From here, the Oedipus “complex” emerged in Freud’s thinking, and even though he did not name it as such until 1910, it appeared in the 1915 footnotes to the Three Essays and remains indissolubly associated with them.

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