Oedipus Complex (Ideas in Psychoanalysis) by Robert Young

by Robert M. Young

The story is famous; its interpretation unsettling and controversial. It has retained its power to shock and is today, albeit in an adapted form, a recurrent tool for therapy.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

Paperback

First published October 16, 1997

About the author

Robert Maxwell Young was an American-born Marxist historian of science specialising in the 19th century and particularly Darwinian thought, a philosopher of the biological and human sciences, and a Kleinian psychotherapist.

Young was born in Highland Park, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. His initial education was in the United States, at Yale University and the University of Rochester Medical School, but in 1960 he moved to the University of Cambridge for his PhD on the history of ideas of mind and brain. The resulting monograph, Mind, Brain and Adaptation, has been called 'a modern classic' by Peter Gay. From 1964 to 1976 he was a Fellow and Graduate Tutor of King's College, Cambridge and became the first Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine set up within the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. From 1976 to 1983 he was a full-time writer. In this period much of his political activities and writing involved radical critiques of science, technology and medicine. His contribution in this area has been compared by historian Gary Werskey with that of J. D. Bernal (While this is Werskey's opinion, it was not, according to Francis Aprahamian, Bernal's research assistant for "Science in History", a view shared by J.D. Bernal himself (personal communication F.A.) Instead Bernal saw Steven Rose a natural scientist, outspokenly left wing and active in the Anti-Vietnam War movement as a younger version of himself.) In any case, Young, while deeply respectful, strived to go beyond Bernal's agenda.

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[Achmad Soefandi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oedipus Complex adalah salah satu teori psikologi yang sampai saat ini masih kontroversi. Dalam teori ini manusia baik itu laki laki ataupi=un perempuan, memiliki ketertarikan dan kecemburuan dengan alat kelamin lawan jenisnya. Ketertarikan dan kecemburuan ini berujung pada hasrat ingin untuk menguasai alat kelamin dari lawan jenis. Conptoh yang sering diambil adalah rasa cinta anak perempuan biasanya lebih dicurahkan kepada Ayah, sementara si anak laki laki lebih mencintai sang Ibu.

Oedipus Complex dimabil dari kisah Yunani kuno, yaitu kisah tentang raja Oedipus Rex yang dengan tega membunuh Sang Ayah untuk menikahi Sang Ibu (hampir sama seperti kisah tangkuban perahu).