Lacan's punny idea of "Le-nom-du-pere" is a linguistic rationalization of this concept.
Lacan's punny idea of "Le-nom-du-pere" is a linguistic rationalization of this concept. Otto Rank wrote about how separation anxiety precedes its development in The Trauma of Birth. Karen Horney criticized the "masculine narcissism" underlying one consequence of this theory, which she opposed with her idea of "womb envy". This concept results in "penis envy" and "castration anxiety". Carl Jung's idea of the "Electra complex" was deprecated by this concept's formulator, who claimed that it applied to both boys and girls. For 10 points, name this unconscious desire of children to kill their father and sexually possess their mother, a key concept of Sigmund Freud.
Lacan's punny idea of "Le-nom-du-pere" is a linguistic rationalization of this concept.
Oedipus complex