Freud's Adolescence: Oedipus Complex and Parricidal Tendencies

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1 Introduction
	1.1 Adolescent psychoanalysis: the French perspective
	1.2 Travelling in Freudland
	1.3 Generational transmission
	1.4 A pivotal period: 1895–1905
	1.5 Between modesty and shame
	1.6 Elements of a process
		1.6.1 A Freudian memory: the non-elaboration of adolescent experience in adult treatments
		1.6.2 Significant occurrences in Freudian theory
		1.6.3 Escaping parental authority, between idealisation and murder
2 Infantile traces and first connections
	2.1 Return to origins
	2.2 Checkmate
	2.3 The first link between childhood and adolescence: the “frenemy”
	2.4 Vienna, terra ambivalente
	2.5 Humiliation, between father and son
	2.6 Heroism and revenge
	2.7 The passion for books
3 Adolescent life
	3.1 An (almost) model student
	3.2 Giving one’s life to a greater cause
	3.3 Meeting a young professor
	3.4 The birth of a hero
	3.5 A young monk discovers free-association
	3.6 A gift for life
	3.7 Caesar and Brutus, a drama scene of fratricide and parricide
	3.8 Student memories: from Trieste to Athens
	3.9 Writing like a German stylist
	3.10 Heinrich Braun, another inseparable friend
	3.11 A question of rivalry
4 Girls: a troubling otherness
	4.1 Sexual life and its vicissitudes
	4.2 Emil Fluss: the first secrets
		4.2.1 Let the high society know
		4.2.2 Fair sex, sad life
	4.3 The weight of sexual prohibitions
	4.4 An immortal principle
	4.5 Gisela, a potentially traumatic love at first sight
	4.6 Looking for daughter, finding mother
	4.7 Living through the Oedipus complex before its discovery
	4.8 Remembering the experience: Gisela, a third?
	4.9 Girls: between poison and boredom
	4.10 A ghost comes and goes
	4.11 Man down: a principle gets married
	4.12 Return to a created biography: memory and its screens
		4.12.1 A profusion of excitations
		4.12.2 Struggling with masturbation fantasies
		4.12.3 A young virgin is deflowered
5 Eduard: the passion of friendship
	5.1 An overview
		5.1.1 Friendship as a vital need
		5.1.2 Founding a royal academy
		5.1.3 A terrible tale: the witch’s terrifying sexuality
		5.1.4 First writings on unconscious searching
		5.1.5 Blood relations
	5.2 Writing one’s feelings
		5.2.1 The pure gold of language
		5.2.2 Matters of the heart
		5.2.3 Alter ego or double?
		5.2.4 A house for two
		5.2.5 A lost letter
		5.2.6 Language of the body and sexual identity
		5.2.7 Sigmund and his sisters
		5.2.8 Matura-tion: the exam and sexual maturity
6 Conclusions
	6.1 This is not a question of age
	6.2 An adolescence avoided
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