Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood

The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex

Marvin P. Osman

Psychodynamics 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 reverberations throughout life. The material that is presented in this book is theoretically and clinically significant, and the psychodynamics it elucidates has heretofore not been sufficiently recognized and appreciated.

Lexington Books / American Foreign Policy

Pages: 378 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-6103-7 • Hardback • July 2018 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-4985-6104-4 • eBook • July 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Series: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment in the Twenty-first Century

Subjects: Psychology / Developmental / General, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent

Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood

The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex

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Psychodynamics 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 reverberations throughout life. The material that is presented in this book is theoretically and clinically significant, and the psychodynamics it elucidates has heretofore not been sufficiently recognized and appreciated.

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Lexington Books / American Foreign Policy

Pages: 378 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-6103-7 • Hardback • July 2018 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-4985-6104-4 • eBook • July 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Series: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and Assessment in the Twenty-first Century

Subjects: Psychology / Developmental / General, Psychology / Psychotherapy / General, Psychology / Psychotherapy / Child & Adolescent

Author

Marvin P. Osman, MD, is member and training and supervising analyst at the New Center for Psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

Chapter 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

Reviews

Osman 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

Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood

The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex

Marvin P. Osman

Psychodynamics Commencing in Early Childhood

The Case for an Additional Tripartite Complex

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