transgenerational-guilt

This chapter critiques Freud's Oedipus Complex and its cultural legacy, arguing that the traditional interpretation sanitizes and simplifies the original tragedy, obscuring deeper transgenerational and unconscious dynamics. It challenges the idea that the Oedipus Complex reflects individual repressed desires, instead framing it as a defense mechanism against inherited familial and societal narratives. The chapter also explores how psychoanalysis became both a tool for self-knowledge and a means of stasis, preventing real change by commodifying unconscious understanding.