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Book SynopsisPsychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood: The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex defines, delineates, and demonstrates the usefulness of an earlier variant of the Oedipus Complex, a complex first manifesting itself with the onset of separation-individuation and ending around the age of three. Of course, a child younger than three years of age has not matured to the degree of selfhood or become the psychically separate entity that, with usual maturation and development, are the attributes of the older child of the Oedipus complex, proper. Under these circumstances, the tripartite psychodynamics that are characteristic of and derived from the earlier period will differ from the better known triadic psychodynamics of Freud's Oedipus complex, proper. This book presents clinical case studies psychological research and psychological understandings from other fields of endeavor that focus on and document psychodynamics of the complex of the earlier age period and their reverberatio
Trade ReviewOsman brilliantly uses classic myth, anthropology, and his own extensive clinical experience, to create a compelling account of the earliest challenges of life and elevate their importance in psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic treatment. -- Peter Loewenberg, professor emeritus, UCLA
Table of ContentsChapter 1: The Building Blocks of an Earlier-Life Oedipus Complex Chapter 2: How Might the Earlier Complex Lend Additional Clarity to Twenty-First Century Psychoanalysis Chapter 3: The Role of the Earlier-Life Complex in Motivating Religious Endeavors Chapter 4: Illustrative Case Studies Chapter 5: Freud’s Rat Man from the Perspective of the Earlier-Life Complex Chapter 6: Listening to Schreber Chapter 7: Manifestations of the Earlier Complex Appearing in Psychodynamically Similar Persons living Three Centuries apart Chapter 8: Selected Religious and Mythical Exemplars Chapter 9: One Who Fears and also Worships Masculinity Chapter 10: Corroboration and Dissonance When Examining Primitive Peoples Initiation Rites Chapter 11: Affirmation from the Arts and Artists
