Articles about Theory

Expanding the scope of psychoanalysis broadens and deepens the range of phenomena we can consider psychoanalytic.

Making sense of pathological organizations: A summary of different authors' perspectives.

Healthy emotional development can only happen if the child has enough of certain important types of experience.

A reconsideration of the Oedipus complex and its culture-specific and variable nature.

With special consideration of Oedipus at Colonus

The psychoanalytic model holds that we are primarily related to others; whether driven to be more competitive or more cooperative with them. Whether we love them romantic...

As a psychoanalyst I am amazed by the enormous impact of the attraction to the familiar, the resisting of strangeness, and the tendency to feel injured by the otherness o...

The Oedipus complex from an Indian perspective