The Oedipus complex requires a father who accepts being symbolically killed

Evidence

14. On this point psychoanalysts will be reluctant to share my view. Dr. Lacan, for instance, talks of the “abundance” of the Oedipus complex. But even if the young boy has to kill his father, it is still necessary for the father to accept being killed. I am reminded of what Hegel said: “The cradle of the child is the tomb of the parents”; and of Nicolas Calas’ Foyer d’incendie and of Jean Lacroix’ Force et faiblesses de la famille. The collapse of moral values in France after the war was perhaps the result of the defeat of that moral being which the nation represented. We know what such traumatisms on the family level may produce. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 984

Categorization

• DEFINE: Fanon’s rebuttal reframes the Oedipal dynamic as requiring paternal participation, perverting psychoanalytic doctrine to colonial context.
• XREF: connects to: The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes; The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality; The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 584 (+3 more)

Related

• The Oedipus complex does not arise among Antillean Negroes (similarity 0.92)
• The Oedipus complex is far from arising among Negroes in the Antilles (similarity 0.88)
• Freudian superego formation requires an Oedipus complex the child can repress. (similarity 0.87)
• The absence of the Oedipus complex in the Antilles blocks typical neurotic homosexuality (similarity 0.79)