On February 22, 2020, an international conference dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the International Institute of Depth Psychology was held with the support of the International Federation of Psychoanalysis and the Ukrainian Association of Psychoanalysis. The theme of the conference is “FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF MODERN OEDIPUS IN CLINICAL HISTORIES”.
Since the rediscovery of Oedipus by Freud as a phenomenon that organizes the psyche of a human being, the Oedipus complex occupies an important place both in psychoanalytic theory and in practice. Today, after more than 100 years since the birth of psychoanalysis, in an era that has transformed the way the subject’s suffering is expressed, we want to question the universality and relevance of the Oedipus complex through its variations and effects that arise in mental functioning in the modern clinic and in culture
