Instead of attempting to explain human behavior in terms of general causal laws, it aims to dissolve the causal nexus of the natural world : an analytic cure destroys the causal tie between a repression and its neurotic symptom, and thereby rescues the patient from the causal regime of nature.
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In studying the childhood factors that start neurotic symptom development, Freud found a constellation of factors that, for literary reasons, he termed the Oedipus complex ( based on the play by Sophocles, " Oedipus Rex ", where the protagonist unwittingly kills his father Laius and marries his mother Jocasta ).
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Dr . Arnold A . Hutschnecker, who for many years served as Richard Nixon's psychotherapist and who once said that " he didn't have a serious psychiatric diagnosis " but had " a good portion of neurotic symptoms, " died on Thursday at his home in Sherman, Conn . He was 102.
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Lacan believed that Freud's essential work had been done prior to 1905 and concerned the interpretation of dreams, neurotic symptoms, and slips, which had been based on a revolutionary way of understanding language and its relation to experience and subjectivity, and that ego psychology and object relations theory were based upon misreadings of Freud's work.
