Attachment, Sexuality, Power

Jerome C. Wakefield is university professor, professor of Social Work, affiliate professor of Philosophy, professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry (2007-2019), associate faculty in the Center for Bioethics in the School of Global Public Health, and honorary faculty in the Psychoanalytic Association of New York Affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine, at New York University.

1. Introduction: Oedipal Theory and Family Power 2. The Graf Family's Dynamics as Background to the Little Hans Case 3. Little Hans and Attachment Theory: Bowlby's Interpretation Reconsidered 4. Oedipal Power/Knowledge: The Sexualization of Attachment and the Regulation of Mother-Son Affection 5. Bowlby Versus the Spoiling Theory: Understanding the Prohibitory Nature of Oedipal Power/Knowledge 6. Olga Honig's Resistance to Oedipal Power/Knowledge 7. Trauma Theory and the Perpetuation of Mother-Bashing: Did Olga Honig's Abusive Parenting Cause Hans's Phobia? 8. The Social Context of the Oedipal Theory: Children as a Challenge to Emerging Ideals of Marital Harmony 9. Bed Time: Oedipal Power/Knowledge, Cosleeping, and the Modern Struggle Over the Child's Sharing of the Marital Bed 10. Family Systems, Lacan, DSM, and Looping: Four Alternative Perspectives on Little Hans 11. Final Thoughts: Oedipal Power/KNowledge and the Future of Psychoanalysis