捷瑟敏

quote from the book "Whose Freud?"

LANGUAGE OF CARE p.150

written by KAJA SILVERMAN

It is often assumed that the primary function of the Oedipus complex
is social normalization. I am no longer as certain as I once was that this
is an adequate account of the Oedipus complex. It now seems to me
that the primary function of this complex is to satisfy an irreducible
structural imperative, albeit in a variable form. This imperative is not
so much, as Claude Lévi-Strauss has argued, to facilitate exchange between
families; it is to induct the subject into the speaking of his or her
language of desire. It is an imperative because without it there can be
no world.