Oedipal and filiation theories fail to describe meshed extended-family societies

Evidence

(Let’s open another and deciding parenthesis: the Oedipus cornplex does not function in the expanse that is extension. Neither rnothering nor fathering are factors there. The Oedipus cornplex depends on laws of filiation, whereas an extended family is circular and meshed, as is the web of Faulkner’s work. (And within this parenthesis we’ll open yet another: that aIl the interpretations (of our societies) dominated by themes of filiation-the phallie, the oedipal, the maternaI complex, etc., and you must admit there are more of these than there is need for them-epitomize ethnocentric and frequently naive projections of Western thought. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 342

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks to the collective-vs-individual bind in strategic essentialism: if the extended family is circular and meshed rather than filiation-based, then collective identity does not reduce to Western individual-psychic structures. — connects to: Animal societies may have originated from sibling bonds rather than parent-child ties — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 627; Cultures select which kin relations become Oedipalized, not universally the father-mother-son triad
• SEED: Article angle: why psychoanalytic frames fail for genuinely collective or mesh-structured identities, and what replaces them.

Broader Connections

• Cultures select which kin relations become Oedipalized, not universally the father-mother-son triad #corroborates (0.85)
• Animal societies may have originated from sibling bonds rather than parent-child ties #corroborates (0.78) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 627