Abstract
This article aims to analyze the ways in which the Oedipus complex has been reworked in the formulations of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as well as of Jean Laplanche. We tried to show that Laplanchean psychoanalysis allows us to respond to some of the critics made by the authors of The Anti-Oedipus. For Laplanche, as well as for Deleuze and Guattari, what is at stake is in what consists the originality of the Freudian discovery for each one: the priority of the sexual, to the psychoanalyst, and the priority of the non-human sex, to the schizoanalysts. After presenting the fundaments of each current, we promote a reflection on relations between Oedipus and gender based on the works of these authors. Also recurring to the contributions of Judith Butler to this debate, we hypothesize that gender norms, while instituting binary sex, serve as a support for the repression (meaning both “Unterdruckung” and “Verdrangung”) of the sexual and of non-human sex, who despise the normative binary of man-woman. Thus, we believe it was possible to point, along with Laplanche and the contributions of schizoanalysis, to a post-Oedipal or even a non-Oedipal psychoanalysis.
Keywords:
desire; Oedipus; unconscious; psychoanalysis; sexuality