Translators’ Acknowledgments Preface to the American Edition: Translators’ Introductory Interview with Dr. J.-D. Nasio No Child Escapes Oedipus! Introduction 1. The Oedipus of the Boy In the Beginning Was the Body of Erogenous Sensations The Three Incestuous Desires The Three Fantasms of Pleasure The Three Fantasms of Castration Anxiety The Resolution of the Boy’s Oedipus Complex: The Desexualization of the Parents Compared to Women, Men Are Essentially Cowards The Fruits of the Oedipus Complex: The Super-Ego and Sexual Identity Summary of the Logic of the Boy’s Oedipus 2. The Oedipus of the Girl A Pre-Oedipal Time: The Girl Is Like a Boy A Time of Solitude: The Girl Feels Alone and Humiliated The Time of Oedipus: The Girl Desires her Father The Resolution of Oedipus: The Woman Desires a Man The Most Feminine Woman Always Has Her Father within Her Summary of the Logic of the Girl’s Oedipus Complex 3. Questions and Answers Concerning Oedipus 4. Oedipus Is the Cause of Ordinary and Morbid Neuroses for Men and Women 5. Archipelago of Oedipus Castration Does not Exist! The Figures of the Father in the Masculine Oedipus The Figures of the Mother in the Feminine Oedipus The Figures of the Phallus in the Feminine Oedipus The Super-Ego and the Three Roles of the Father in the Masculine Oedipus Playing with Dolls The Fantasm of Phallic Omnipotence Phobia Is a Projection, Hysteria a Rebellion, and Obsession a Displacement The Bisexual Signifi cation of a Neurotic Symptom What Is Hysteria? Hysteria Suffered by an Adult Was Provoked by an Overly Sensual Relation between the Child that He or She Was and the Parents The Hysterical Woman and Her Fear of Love The Three Lacanian Figures of the Father in Oedipus Symbolic, Real, and Imaginary The Three Types of Lack in Oedipus: A Table Comparing the Masculine and Feminine Positions 6. Excerpts from the Work of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan on Oedipus

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