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Anti-semitism and Psychiatry: Recognition,Prevention, and Interventions,edited by H. Steven Moffic,J. R. Peteet,A. Hankir,and M.V. Seeman,Springer Nature Switzerland AG,Cham, Switzerland, 2020, 368 pp.

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The Possibility of Multiple Models for Oedipal Development

For nearly 100 years and at least in certain prominent psychoanalytic subgroups, the Oedipus complex remained a defining construct that determined a boundary for those within and outside psychoanalysis. The time is ripe for reconsidering its culture-specific and variable nature and its failure inter alia to explain with any degree of cogency ongoing internecine conflict in a community of clinicians and theoreticians who have had the benefit of oedipally mediated training analyses.