Title The economics of the libido : psychic bisexuality, the superego, and the centrality of the Oedipus complex / Trevor C. Pedersen.

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Description	1 online resource (xix, 180 pages .)
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	COVER; CONTENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE Psychic bisexuality; CHAPTER TWO "An array of ideal values": ego psychology and the destiny of the Oedipus complex; CHAPTER THREE "We cannot fall out of this world": psychoanalysis and social ontology; CONCLUSION; APPENDIX On Wittgenstein's private language argument; REFERENCES; INDEX.
Summary	This book is an attempt to get beyond pluralism by embedding psychoanalysis in philosophy and returning to Freud qua psychologist to link the depths of the mind to its surface. Beginning with the proposition that egoism and altruism are a more accurate representation of the binary of activity and passivity, Economics revisits Freud's work to contextualize his central concepts and expand upon them. Egoism and altruism are further divided into masculine and feminine drives which can exist in either sex due to psychic bisexuality. Pederson's Freud places the Oedipus complex as the height of pers.
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Subject	Oedipus complex.
	Oedipus complex.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Pederson, Trevor C. Economics of the libido. 1782201777 9781782201779
ISBN	9781782413059 (electronic book)
	1782413057 (electronic book)
	1782201777
	9781782201779