Property inheritance structures shape the Oedipus complex’s strength.

Evidence

The strength of this complex in patriarchal societies, he asserted, was partly a result of the son’s role as inheritor of the father’s property and his position as provider for the father in his old age. This meant that the early education of the son was directed less towards happiness than towards economic usefulness. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 339

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Institute’s project of synthesizing Marx and Freud — the economic base determining psychic structure, echoing Reich’s and later Marcuse’s work. — connects to: Oedipus encodes desire flows into repressive social structures; The institution of inheritance causally produced woman’s subordination to man’s property — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 182; Darwinism fused inherited hierarchy with a doctrine of progress — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 472 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Oedipus encodes desire flows into repressive social structures #expands (0.82)
• The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality #qualifies (0.80)
• The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes #qualifies (0.80)
• The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles #qualifies (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584
• Freudian superego formation requires an Oedipus complex the child can repress. #qualifies (0.78)
• The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed #qualifies (0.78) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984
• The institution of inheritance causally produced woman’s subordination to man’s property #complicates (0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 182
• Marcuse defended the libidinal reading of the Oedipus complex against Fromm’s interpersonal reinterpretation #responds-to (0.74) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 372
• Darwinism fused inherited hierarchy with a doctrine of progress #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 472