Freud

[girl_in_blue]

I have a quick question about Freud's Oedipus theory - obviously everyone knows the basics of it, and it comes up in a bunch of his writings, but where does it come up initially? Or rather, in which work would I find it laid out and defined? Basically I need it for a citation (one of these things you mention in your thesis and then have to

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[solelo]

Interpretation_of_Dreams, 1899 or 1900 (depending).

[solelo]

(In the Penguin Freud Library edition of I. of D., Freud introduces the theory on page 364.)

Also, I did more looking. Use 1900 for the pub. date. :)

[girl_in_blue]

thanks so much!

[solelo]

No problem.

[theoria]

So, what you're saying, then, is that you want to cite something you haven't bothered to read. Indeed, you want to cite something and you don't even know what it is in the first place. Great stuff.

[phasma_aphanes]

well, one would hope she would actually go and look up the book. of course, she might also look through freud's other works and find the little hans case study as well as a later essay he wrote called "the oedipus complex" where he spells out his more developed theory. but perhaps library research for a thesis is a bit much to ask, don't you think?

[theoria]

It does seem that way. I can imagine how the sentence runs, "Well, as everyone knows, this Austrian-Jew-Guy discovered some Greek plays and one of them was about some guy who killed his father and fucked his mother. That's about all I know (Freud 1900: 384)".

[phasma_aphanes]

uumm. that's page 364.

Aren't you the Gwyneth Paltrow character . . .

[calaf]

. . . in The Royal Tanenbaums?

[e4q]

remember when people read books?

[pansette]

I've read assloads of Freud, but I couldn't have answered this question off the top of my head...

Of course, that said, I also would've known where to look to find it.

Like, say, http://www.google.com