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I think Nestle disapproves.
Nestle would have probably preferred a plate of veggies instead, although they probably would have been the wrong veggies and would have meritted a hardy disapproval.
Dear Amy,
Ignore Nestle's diapproval.
I think this cake is a work of Art!
Dear Amy,
Ignore Nestle's diapproval.
I think this cake is a work of Art!
Woah! More Richter Scale grade disapproval!!
Somebunny is very ungrateful. If you don't want the cake, I'll eat it. :P
Is this a case of doesn't want her cake and doesn't want to eat it too?
I live with a disapproving dutch brother & sister, and I don't think between the two of them they can bring forth the massive level of disapproval that Nestle manages here. Good job, Nestle!
I think we've stumbled across a new weight loss plan! Make all food look like it disapproves of us! We'll all be so terrified, no one will ever eat again!
that's a look that could turn you to ice...
it's that dutchie snarkyness - it goes beyond disapproval and is oooohh so adorabuhls!
That appears to be a pretty good case of disapproval, there, but I love the cake.
Maybe Nestle is disapproving because it is not carot cake!
When disapproving rabbits and Cake Wrecks collide.
Nestle is just mad that his disapproval won't be represented anymore once the hoomins eat the cake. He wanted a more lasting tribute, like the ones on Easter Island. Would that be too much to ask?
cake looks good, like the carrot touch too! i'll have some.
I think Nestle would have to be impressed by a shape so similar to the real thing - especially those ears!
Ha, I love the squinty-eyed disapproval that was captured! My grandma used to make bunny shaped birthday cakes with paper rabbit ears. We always approved (but there were no bunnies around to disapprove!).
Licorice whiskers?
Where is Cake Wrecks???
great job! i haven't seen a food bunny here since the ginger bunny 2 christmases ago. I approve!
ooooooh... that cake looks SO GOOD! I dont think Nestle approves


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Adrian Sutil concedes this year's Championship could be "more like endurance racing" due to the new limit on fuel...
Adrian Sutil concedes this year's Championship could be "more like endurance racing" due to the new limit on fuel.
One of the many changes drivers will have to adapt to this season is the new 100kgs fuel limit for each grand prix.
At almost 60kgs less than what they used last season, many are predicting that drivers won't be able to race flat out with Sutil likening it to endurance racing.
"The highest sporting challenge would be to maximise what you have in the car, especially in the early races," Sutil said at the launch of the new Sauber C33.
"I would say fuel management would be the number one topic. That's something we haven't (had to) focused on so much in the past, as we could really push through the race.
"Now I think it's going to be more like endurance racing. You have to last until the end with a certain amount of fuel. This is quite a challenge, and for us drivers there are quite a few things to learn and to prepare."
That, though, isn't the German's only challenge as for the first time in his Formula One career, Sutil is no longer a Force India driver.
Making the move to Sauber in the off-season, the 31-year-old says he is up to the challenge.
"After six good years in the same team, it was time for me to look for a new challenge. I'm determined to have a successful future with the Sauber F1 Team and will do my bit to ensure that.
"In recent years the team has repeatedly demonstrated its potential, not least in the second half of the last season. And as for infrastructure, the Sauber F1 Team are a match for anybody. I can't wait to take on the challenge."
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Can I go to school part-time?
Lecture, lab, and clinical hours are usually four full days a week. On Level 1 (first year) school days are primarily Tuesday through Friday. On Level 2 (second year) school days are primarily Monday through Thursday. School days are subject to change.
Do you have an evening program?
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How long is the program?
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BHSN also offers an accelerated program for qualifying students who wish to graduate one semester early.
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Where can I take the non-nursing prerequisite and co-requisite courses?
You can take the courses at most colleges. We work closely with Housatonic Community College, so the non-nursing courses listed in our catalog are named and numbered according to HCC courses. However, you may take the equivalent courses at another school. If I already have a degree or some college courses, can I transfer those credits to BHSN? Yes. As long as you have earned a "C" grade or better, equivalent courses will be accepted as part of the Diploma requirements at BHSN.
Is there a time limit on transferable courses?
Science courses must not be older than 7 years. Exceptions to this will be considered on a case by case basis by the Admissions Committee. There is no time limit on any of the other courses.
Must all the non-nursing courses be completed before I begin the nursing courses?
There are only two courses that must be completed before beginning nursing courses: Chemistry with a lab (taken in high school or at the college level within 7 years) and English Composition. However, because the nursing courses are intense, we strongly recommend that students take the majority of their non-nursing courses before they actually begin nursing courses. This is especially true for Anatomy and Physiology I and II (4 credits each).
Can you explain the Diploma vs. Associate Degree in Nursing?
There are three educational paths to become a Registered Nurse. A Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) is a four-year degree. An Associate Degree in Nursing is a 2-3 year educational commitment where the non-nursing courses and nursing courses are usually offered at a community college. The Diploma in Nursing is a course of study, usually in a hospital based setting. All three allow the graduate to take the same NCLEX examination. This is a national exam that is required for Registered Nurse licensure.
Is there an advantage to one educational path over another?
Salary, job opportunities, and educational advancement for the Associate Degree and the Diploma graduate are comparable. The diploma program focuses more on the direct care in the acute care setting. Most entry-level jobs as a RN will accept all three educational preparations. Some jobs may require experience as a RN and a BSN.
Can you explain the Associate Degree option to me?
As stated above, all nursing courses are taken at BHSN and non-nursing courses are transferred in from a college or university. BHSN has a partnership with Housatonic Community College. If a student takes an additional 3 credit course (ENG*E102) and has taken at least 16 of the non-nursing credits at HCC, graduates from BHSN and passes the NCLEX, they will receive a Diploma in Nursing AND an Associate of Science Degree in Nursing. Students who take the non-nursing courses elsewhere will receive a Diploma in Nursing from BHSN. Both the Associate Degree and the Diploma allow the graduate to become a RN. The Associate Degree is an option some students choose.
Will any of these credits transfer into a Bachelor Degree in Nursing (BSN) Program?
Yes. 30 nursing credits and 30 non-nursing credits are transferable to any BSN program in the state according to the Connecticut Articulation Model for Nursing Education. This is true for all Diploma and Associate Degree graduates.
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You genuinely believe Caroll is a better coach? Very interesting how a single variable is the absolute to you for that comparison.
Hell of a game man. I respect the hell out of your team. As much as I hate them, I gotta give them credit.
Thanks for being cool with us even if we have a few bad apples. Here's to another decade of this.
I think our players have a disconnect between Capers and them. There's more talent than production. We look lost and just unmotivated at times. I'd give my left nut to have Rex as a DC here. He'd kick them in the ***** and get the most.
Capers is just so passive and then I don't think he listens to the players. He doesn't make adjustments and doesn't cater to them. It's time for him to go.
It can't get much worse really.
I really wasn't feeling confident early. It was nice to see us put up a good fight and not roll over. Our fans are crushed but I didn't have a big issue. I think maybe we just throw a new DC in there for some new blood and we might have something. Just need one more good draft like we had with Clay/Raji. Tough, but we can do it.
And thanks.
Save me! lol. No I just was saying hi is all. Your team can kiss my balls but I'm glad we gave them a good game at least. I was pretty dang happy for a season ending loss.
And I imagine the stopping smoking is probably part of it.
I'm a little loopy, you said something to me and I was going to say something about the game and got caught up in this first I guess.
I think I'm ****ing dying. I got the flu or some ****. I feel like I took 300 body blows from Mike Tyson. On top of it, I gave up smoking so I'm also pissy as ****. lol. FML.
I'm the same. Basketball was my game. I used to watch everything basketball. I miss playing. The college game is so pure. They keep it a team game, and it's just about putting the ball into the hoop more than the other guys. I need to start watching more really.
I still watch a ton of college basketball. I try and watch maybe 2 games a week during the year, then I watch all the conf tourneys I can then obviously MM. It's my fav sport after the NFL honestly, as much as I love college. I used to live and breathe basketball growing up, playing it. As much as I love the NFL I never was near as fond of the sport. NCAA gives m the feeling of basketball I used to have. The NBA doesn't.
Yuppppppp. They basically molded it into like a....TV series. It's crap. I hate it. There's so many reasons but that's a big part of it. I used to watch religiously and I never even had a team, this was almost 10 years ago though.
Also, I ****ing hate the NBA. I hope it's a government program of some sort. They attract all the stupidest simple minded people into the best sport for stupid simple minded people then offer them all free game tickets on the same night and they commit mass NBA fan genocide.
(I hope you are not an NBA fan)
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From Ghazi Air Base in Pakistan, the modified MH-60 helicopters made their way to the garrison suburb of Abbottabad, about 70 miles from the center of Islamabad. Aboard were Navy SEALs, flown across the border from Afghanistan, along with tactical signals, intelligence collectors, and navigators using highly classified hyperspectral imagers.
After bursts of fire over 40 minutes, 22 people were counted, and five were killed. One of the dead was Osama bin Laden, done in by a double tap -- boom, boom -- to the left side of his face. His body was aboard the choppers that made the trip back. One had experienced mechanical failure and was destroyed by U.S. forces, military and White House officials tell National Journal.
Were it not for this high-value target, it might have been a routine mission for the specially trained and highly mythologized SEAL Team Six, officially called the Naval Special Warfare Development Group, but known even to the locals at their home base Dam Neck in Virginia as just DevGru.
This HVT was special, and the raids required practice, so they replicated the one-acre compound. Trial runs were held in early April.
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DevGru belongs to the Joint Special Operations Command, an extraordinary and unusual collection of classified standing task forces and special-missions units. They report to the president and operate worldwide based on the legal (or extra-legal) premises of classified presidential directives. Though the general public knows about the special SEALs and their brothers in Delta Force, most JSOC missions never leak. We only hear about JSOC when something goes bad (a British aid worker is accidentally killed) or when something really big happens (a merchant marine captain is rescued at sea), and even then, the military remains especially sensitive about their existence. Several dozen JSOC operatives have died in Pakistan over the past several years. Their names are released by the Defense Department in the usual manner, but with a cover story -- generally, they were killed in training accidents in eastern Afghanistan. That's the code.
How did the helos elude the Pakistani air defense network? Did they spoof transponder codes? Were they painted and tricked out with Pakistan Air Force equipment? If so -- and we may never know -- two other JSOC units, the Technical Application Programs Office and the Aviation Technology Evaluation Group, were responsible. These truly are the silent squirrels -- never getting public credit and not caring one whit. Since 9/11, the JSOC units and their task forces have become the U.S. government's most effective and lethal weapon against terrorists and their networks, drawing plenty of unwanted, and occasionally unflattering, attention to themselves in the process.
JSOC costs the country more than $1 billion annually. The command has its critics, but it has escaped significant congressional scrutiny and has operated largely with impunity since 9/11. Some of its interrogators and operators were involved in torture and rendition, and the line between its intelligence-gathering activities and the CIA's has been blurred.
But Sunday's operation provides strong evidence that the CIA and JSOC work well together. Sometimes intelligence needs to be developed rapidly, to get inside the enemy's operational loop. And sometimes it needs to be cultivated, grown as if it were delicate bacteria in a petri dish.
In an interview at CIA headquarters two weeks ago, a senior intelligence official said the two proud groups of American secret warriors had been "deconflicted and basically integrated" -- finally -- 10 years after 9/11. Indeed, according to accounts given to journalists by five senior administration officials Sunday night, the CIA gathered the intelligence that led to bin Laden's location. A memo from CIA Director Leon Panetta sent Sunday night provides some hints of how the information was collected and analyzed. In it, he thanked the National Security Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency for their help. NSA figured out, somehow, that there was no telephone or Internet service in the compound. How it did this without Pakistan's knowledge is a secret. The NGIA makes the military's maps but also develops their pattern recognition software -- no doubt used to help establish, by February of this year, that the CIA could say with "high probability" that bin Laden and his family were living there.
Recently, JSOC built a new Targeting and Analysis Center in Rosslyn, Va. Where the National Counterterrorism Center tends to focus on threats to the homeland, TAAC, whose existence was first disclosed by the Associated Press, focuses outward, on active "kinetic" -- or lethal -- counterterrorism missions abroad.
That the center could be stood up under the nose of some of the nation's most senior intelligence officials without their full knowledge testifies to the power and reach of JSOC, whose size has tripled since 9/11. The command now includes more than 4,000 soldiers and civilians. It has its own intelligence division, which may or may not have been involved in last night's effort, and has gobbled up a number of free-floating Defense Department entities that allowed it to rapidly acquire, test, and field new technologies.
Under a variety of standing orders, JSOC is involved in more than 50 current operations spanning a dozen countries, and its units, supported by so-called "white," or acknowledged, special operations entities like Rangers, Special Forces battalions, SEAL teams, and Air Force special ops units from the larger Special Operations Command, are responsible for most of the "kinetic" action in Afghanistan.
Pentagon officials are conscious of the enormous stress that 10 years of war have placed on the command. JSOC resources are heavily taxed by the operational tempo in Afghanistan and Pakistan, officials have said. The current commander, Vice Adm. William McRaven, and Maj. Gen. Joseph Votel, McRaven's nominated replacement, have been pushing to add people and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology to areas outside the war theater where al-Qaida and its affiliates continue to thrive.
Earlier this year, it seemed that the elite units would face the same budget pressures that the entire military was experiencing. Not anymore. The military found a way, largely by reducing contracting staff and borrowing others from the Special Operations Command, to add 50 positions to JSOC. And Votel wants to add several squadrons to the "Tier One" units -- Delta and the SEALs.


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The faculty and students of the Department of Neuroscience are investigating a wide range of nervous system operations in the developing and mature organism. Organizational levels range from molecules and neurons to neural systems and cognitive functions.
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The conventional wisdom on Obama is that he's too cool and cerebral to feel our national pain—unlike Bill Clinton, who went through an agonizing reappraisal after the Republicans walloped him in the 1994 midterm elections. But in truth, the feel-your-pain president was just as uncertain as Obama, at least at first, about how his policies were affecting ordinary Americans. Amid heated and often unresolved debate among his chief advisers, Clinton dropped his promised middle-class tax cuts and focused on cutting the deficit. For Clinton, it was a huge gamble. He was alienating his liberal base, just as Obama has done. He also seemed peevish and defensive, just as Obama has recently. "Hey, the president is relevant here," was Clinton's weak plaint to a reporter in April 1995, during the height of the Newt Gingrich revolution.
But by the end of 1995, three years into his presidency, the economy began to boom. Clinton began to show a lot more confidence and do something he had been unwilling to do for most of his first term: take credit. "I remember I wrote up a statement on unemployment going down or something, and when I went into the Oval Office he said, 'I don't ever want you bring me something again that somebody in the worst 30 economic counties in the country would hear and think we've lost touch,'" his aide Gene Sperling recalled. "But by 1996 we started to take a little bit of credit. Clinton said, 'You can finally go out and tell people.'"
Granted, Obama probably has a much tougher economic problem. But he also may be luckier in his adversaries—incoming GOP House Speaker John Boehner is more a workmanlike Denny Hastert type than a Gingrich, and rather than leading his own revolution Boehner will be forced to straddle one. So don't be surprised if Obama regains his footing.


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I admit to taking the easy route and opting for Sweet Refrigerator Pickles—it was my first time, after all. This recipe could not be simpler. I tossed together the sliced cukes, onions, and peppers and sprinkled with pickling salt. As I waited the required hour for the salt to work its magic, I thought about my grandfather's garden. He worked an acre of land (in the city!) and delighted us with such gems as raspberries, blueberries, grapes, Swiss chard, sweet corn, and parsnips, among many others. As the summer waned, he canned tomatoes, piccalilli, and my favorite, bread-and-butter pickles. Now that he's gone, I'm sorry I didn't appreciate his efforts more.
After an hour had passed, all that was left to do was to combine the cider vinegar, sugar, celery seeds, and mustard seeds. I drained the vegetables and added the vinegar mixture. After letting the pickles sit in the refrigerator for 48 hours, I had my first taste . . . and they are better than I thought they would be! Sweet, with a little zip from the hot peppers. Still not as good as my grandfather's pickles, but I'll work on it!
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8 cups sliced cucumbers ( 6 to 8 medium cucumbers)
2 large onions, sliced
2 large red peppers, sliced
3 hot peppers, sliced
1 tablespoon pickling salt
2 cups cider vinegar
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons celery seed
2 teaspoons mustard seed
Directions: In a large bowl, combine the cucumber slices, onions, and peppers. Sprinkle with the salt and set the bowl aside for 1 hour. Drain and discard the liquid. In a bowl or jar with a lid, combine the vinegar, sugar, and seeds and whisk or shake until sugar is dissolved. Pour the liquid over the cucumbers. Transfer the cucumbers to a glass or plastic-covered container for storage and refrigerate. These will keep up to 3 months. Makes about 4 quarts.
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1 (18.25 ounce) package
lemon cake mix
1 (10 ounce) package
frozen raspberries
2 tablespoons
8 (1 ounce) squares
white chocolate, chopped
3 cups
heavy cream
1 teaspoon
vanilla extract
1/2 cup
fresh raspberries, garnish
This was a wonderful, wonderful cake. I made it for co-worker's party, and not only was the whole thing eaten, but every single person there asked for the recipe, and even talked about it days later. A number of the other reviewers mentioned that the mousse/whipped cream concoction was too runny. That was really my only complaint about this recipe; the mousse was difficult to work with, especially when it came to frosting the outside of the cake. However, after some experimentation, I found that instant pudding mix, added (dry) to the whipped cream/white chocolate works exceptionally well. Not only does it stabilize the mousse, but it also adds flavor. I recommend trying either the vanilla pudding mix or the white chocolate. Also, to add an extra boost of flavor to the raspberry, try adding a few drops of orange extract. It enhances the berry flavor quite well. I also recommend adding sugar to taste. I agree that the raspberry puree can be rather tart. However, don't sweeten too much; a hint of tartness offsets the sweetness of the cake and the mousse. Hope that helps!
The flavors complemented each other very well, but insted of the "mousse" I simply made a white chocolate ganache to frost with. I also drizzled each layer with a lemon syrup I made from lemon juice and confectioner's sugar. I'll definitely use this one again!
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I haven't tried this recipe but i used it as a reference to make my white chocolate mousse and it turned out great. First melt chocolate with some heat cream and whisk till smooth.
let cool down. if you don't it will melt the whipped cream which some who rated this recipe obviously did. whip the cream till soft peaks form and add a stabilizer and sugar to sweeten. whipped cream stabilizers are sold in specialty stores or online. piping gel also stabilizes cream to a nice thick consistency. next mix 1/4 of whipped cream into chocolate that has been cooled. next fold in another 1/4 of cream. do slowly so as keep airy and thick. you'll love these tips if used correctly!!!!!!!!!!!
Tastes DELICIOUS!! I would double the raspberry filling, as I did rasp. on the bottom, then mousse, then raspberry. I also thickened up the raspberries with a little more cornstarch, so it was like a thick jam. The mousse was a little sloppy though, I think maybe if you refrigerate before you ice the rest of the cake it would go on a little smoother, esp. on the sides. Will definitely make this again.
This is a little time consuming, but worth the effort, it turns out very light and delicious. I followed the advise of the reviewer who used instant pudding to thicken the mousse. I just whipped my cream until it was thick and sprinkled in about 2 TBS of vanilla instant pudding and it thickened immediately, so I didn't add anymore, then mixed in the white chocolate, it turned out very good, easy to frost, not runny at all. I didn't have raspberries so I used strawberries and it was very good.
I made this cake yesterday & put it in the freezer. We're having a big, family BBQ in a few days & I wanted something I could make ahead of time. I read other reviews & took the advice to add instant vanilla pudding to the whip cream. I used a 4-serving pkg - make sure it's 'instant' pudding! It firmed up the whip cream SO nicely. I melted the white chocolate with 1/2 cup whip cream - not 1 c. as orginally written & I whipped the remaining 1-1/2 cups with the pudding). I cooled the white choc. completely (over a bowl of ice water & gradually folded the whip cream in. It was a perfect consistency for icing the layers & piping the remaining around the base of the cake & the top. Also, when I made the raspberry filling - I didn't bother pureeing the rasberries first. When you heat the berries, add sugar (2Tbsp) & the cornstarch/water - the berries break down & puree themselves. This saves time. All in all I found this to be an excellent recipe. You can't go wrong with a cake mix, and the white choc. mousse tasted delicious. The raspberry filling was of a jam consistency - I put it between layer 2 and 3 (mousse between 1 & 2 and 3 & 4). The results looked very professional! Can't wait to taste the final product. P.S. I won't add the fresh rasberries that decorate the top of the cake until I take it out of the freezer and the cake has thawed. I encourage you to try this recipe. Make the few changes that have been suggested by others - you won't be disappointed!
I've made this cake twice, and I found it relatively easy to make since I'm just a beginner baker. It tastes great too but I don't think that much cream is necessary because I always tend to have globs of it left over. I also strain the raspberries a little after pureeing since I prefer not having the seedy texture.
I agree with the reviewer that wrote the recipe is a good idea, but needs to be re-written. I added a box of instant pudding mix as so many have suggested but it was still runny. It looked lovely until I cut a piece out, then the whole thing collapsed on the runny mousse. It tasted wonderful though!
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Servings Per Recipe: 12
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 520
Calories from Fat: 299
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Oedipus complex
The term Oedipus complex (or, less commonly, Oedipal complex) explains the emotions and ideas that the mind keeps in the unconscious, via dynamic repression, that concentrates upon a child's desire to have sexual relations with the parent of the opposite sex (i.e. males attracted to their mothers, and females attracted to their fathers).[1][2] Sigmund Freud, who coined the term "Oedipus complex" believed that the Oedipus complex is a desire for the parent in both males and females; Freud deprecated the term "Electra complex", which was introduced by Carl Gustav Jung in regard to the Oedipus complex manifested in young girls. The Oedipus complex occurs in the third — phallic stage (ages 3–6) — of the five psychosexual development stages: (i) the oral, (ii) the anal, (iii) the phallic, (iv) the latent, and (v) the genital — in which the source of libidinal pleasure is in a different erogenous zone of the infant's body.
In classical Freudian psychoanalytic theory, a child's identification with the same-sex parent is the successful resolution of the Oedipus complex and of the Electra complex. This is a key psychological experience that is necessary for the development of a mature sexual role and identity. Sigmund Freud further proposed that boys and girls experience the complexes differently: boys in a form of castration anxiety, girls in a form of penis envy; and that unsuccessful resolution of the complexes might lead to neurosis, pedophilia, and homosexuality. Men and women who are fixated in the Oedipal and Electra stages of their psychosexual development might be considered "mother-fixated" and "father-fixated". In adult life this can lead to a choice of a sexual partner who resembles one's parent.
Oedipus refers to a 5th-century BC Greek mythological character Oedipus, who unwittingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta. A play based on the myth, Oedipus Rex, was written by Sophocles, ca. 429 BC.
Modern productions of Sophocles' play were staged in Paris and Vienna in the 19th century and were phenomenally successful in the 1880s and 1890s. The Austrian psychiatrist, Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), attended. In his book The Interpretation of Dreams first published in 1899, he proposed that an Oedipal desire is a universal, psychological phenomenon innate (phylogenetic) to human beings, and the cause of much unconscious guilt. He based this on his analysis of his feelings attending the play, his anecdotal observations of neurotic or normal children, and on the fact that the Oedipal Rex play was effective on both ancient and modern audiences (he also claimed the play Hamlet was effective for the same reason).[4]
Freud described the man Oedipus:
His destiny moves us only because it might have been ours — because the Oracle laid the same curse upon us before our birth as upon him. It is the fate of all of us, perhaps, to direct our first sexual impulse towards our mother and our first hatred and our first murderous wish against our father. Our dreams convince us that this is so.[5]
A six-stage chronology of Sigmund Freud's theoretic evolution of the Oedipus complex is:
- Stage 1. 1897–1909. After his father's death in 1896, and having seen the play Oedipus Rex, by Sophocles, Freud begins using the term "Oedipus".
- Stage 2. 1909–1914. Proposes that Oedipal desire is the "nuclear complex" of all neuroses; first usage of "Oedipus complex" in 1910.
- Stage 3. 1914–1918. Considers paternal and maternal incest.
- Stage 4. 1919–1926. Complete Oedipus complex; identification and bisexuality are conceptually evident in later works.
- Stage 5. 1926–1931. Applies the Oedipal theory to religion and custom.
- Stage 6. 1931–1938. Investigates the "feminine Oedipus attitude" and "negative Oedipus complex"; later the "Electra complex".[6]
The Oedipus complex[edit]
In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development (age 3–6 years), when also occurs the formation of the libido and the ego; yet it might manifest itself at an earlier age.[2][7]
In the phallic stage, a boy's decisive psychosexual experience is the Oedipus complex — his son–father competition for possession of mother. It is in this third stage of psychosexual development that the child's genitalia are his or her primary erogenous zone; thus, when children become aware of their bodies, the bodies of other children, and the bodies of their parents, they gratify physical curiosity by undressing and exploring themselves, each other, and their genitals, so learning the anatomic differences between "male" and "female" and the gender differences between "boy" and "girl".
Psychosexual infantilism — Despite mother being the parent who primarily gratifies the child's desires, the child begins forming a discrete sexual identity — "boy", "girl" — that alters the dynamics of the parent and child relationship; the parents become objects of infantile libidinal energy. The boy directs his libido (sexual desire) upon his mother, and directs jealousy and emotional rivalry against his father — because it is he who sleeps with his mother. Moreover, to facilitate union with mother, the boy's id wants to kill father (as did Oedipus), but the pragmatic ego, based upon the reality principle, knows that the father is the stronger of the two males competing to possess the one female. Nonetheless, the boy remains ambivalent about his father's place in the family, which is manifested as fear of castration by the physically greater father; the fear is an irrational, subconscious manifestation of the infantile id.[8]
Psycho-logic defense — In both sexes, defense mechanisms provide transitory resolutions of the conflict between the drives of the id and the drives of the ego. The first defense mechanism is repression, the blocking of memories, emotional impulses, and ideas from the conscious mind; yet its action does not resolve the id–ego conflict. The second defense mechanism is identification, in which the boy or girl child adapts by incorporating, to his or her (super)ego, the personality characteristics of the same-sex parent. As a result of this, the boy diminishes his castration anxiety, because his likeness to father protects him from father's wrath in their maternal rivalry. In the case of the girl, this facilitates identifying with mother, who understands that, in being females, neither of them possesses a penis, and thus are not antagonists.[9]
Dénouement — Unresolved son–father competition for the psycho-sexual possession of the mother might result in a phallic stage fixation that leads to the boy becoming an aggressive, over-ambitious, and vain man. Therefore, the satisfactory parental handling and resolution of the Oedipus complex are most important in developing the male infantile super-ego. This is because, by identifying with a parent, the boy internalizes Morality; thereby, he chooses to comply with societal rules, rather than reflexively complying in fear of punishment.
Oedipal case study[edit]
In Analysis of a Phobia in a Five-year-old Boy (1909), the case study of the equinophobic boy "Little Hans", Freud showed that the relation between Hans's fears — of horses and of his father — derived from external factors, the birth of a sister, and internal factors, the desire of the infantile id to replace father as companion to mother, and guilt for enjoying the masturbation normal to a boy of his age. Moreover, his admitting to wanting to procreate with mother was considered proof of the boy's sexual attraction to the opposite-sex parent; he was a heterosexual male. Yet, the boy Hans was unable to relate fearing horses to fearing his father. As the treating psychoanalyst, Freud noted that "Hans had to be told many things that he could not say himself" and that "he had to be presented with thoughts, which he had, so far, shown no signs of possessing".[10]
Feminine Oedipus attitude[edit]
Initially, Freud equally applied the Oedipus complex to the psychosexual development of boys and girls, but later modified the female aspects of the theory as "feminine Oedipus attitude" and "negative Oedipus complex";[11] yet, it was his student–collaborator Carl Jung, who, in 1913, proposed the Electra complex to describe a girl's daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of the father.[12]
In the phallic stage, a girl's Electra complex is her decisive psychodynamic experience in forming a discrete sexual identity (ego). Whereas a boy develops castration anxiety, a girl develops penis envy rooted in anatomic fact: without a penis, she cannot sexually possess mother, as the infantile id demands. Resultantly, the girl redirects her desire for sexual union upon father, thus progressing to heterosexual femininity, which culminates in bearing a child, who replaces the absent penis.[13] Furthermore, after the phallic stage, the girl's psychosexual development includes transferring her primary erogenous zone from the infantile clitoris to the adult vagina.
Freud thus considered a girl's negative Oedipus complex to be more emotionally intense than that of a boy, resulting, potentially, in a woman of submissive, insecure personality;[14] thus might an unresolved Electra complex, daughter–mother competition for psychosexual possession of father, lead to a phallic-stage fixation conducive to a girl becoming a woman who continually strives to dominate men (viz. penis envy), either as an unusually seductive woman (high self-esteem) or as an unusually submissive woman (low self-esteem). Therefore, the satisfactory parental handling and resolution of the Electra complex are most important in developing the female infantile super-ego, because, by identifying with a parent, the girl internalizes morality; thereby, she chooses to comply with societal rules, rather than reflexively complying in fear of punishment.
Freudian theoretic revision[edit]
When Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) proposed that the Oedipus complex was psychologically universal, he provoked the evolution of Freudian psychology and the psychoanalytic treatment method, by collaborator and competitor alike.
Carl Gustav Jung[edit]
In countering Freud's proposal that the psychosexual development of boys and girls is equal, that each initially experiences sexual desire (libido) for mother, and aggression towards father, student–collaborator Carl Jung counter-proposed that girls experienced desire for father and aggression towards mother via the Electra complex — derived from the 5th-century BC Greek mythologic character Electra, who plotted matricidal revenge with Orestes, her brother, against Clytemnestra, their mother, and Aegisthus, their stepfather, for their murder of Agamemnon, her father, (cf. Electra, by Sophocles).[15][16][17] Moreover, because it is native to Freudian psychology, orthodox Jungian psychology uses the term "Oedipus complex" only to denote a boy's psychosexual development.
Otto Rank[edit]
In classical Freudian psychology the super-ego, "the heir to the Oedipus complex", is formed as the infant boy internalizes the familial rules of his father. In contrast, in the early 1920s, using the term "pre-Oedipal", Otto Rank proposed that a boy's powerful mother was the source of the super-ego, in the course of normal psychosexual development. Rank's theoretic conflict with Freud excluded him from the Freudian inner circle; nonetheless, he later developed the psychodynamic Object relations theory in 1925.
Melanie Klein[edit]
Whereas Freud proposed that father (the paternal phallus) was central to infantile and adult psychosexual development, Melanie Klein concentrated upon the early maternal relationship, proposing that Oedipal manifestations are perceptible in the first year of life, the oral stage. Her proposal was part of the Controversial discussions (1942–44) at the British Psychoanalytical Association. The Kleinian psychologists proposed that "underlying the Oedipus complex, as Freud described it . . . there is an earlier layer of more primitive relationships with the Oedipal couple".[18] Moreover, Klein's work lessened the central role of the Oedipus complex, with the concept of the depressive position.[19][20]
Wilfred Bion[edit]
"For the post–Kleinian Bion, the myth of Oedipus concerns investigatory curiosity — the quest for knowledge — rather than sexual difference; the other main character in the Oedipal drama becomes Tiresias (the false hypothesis erected against anxiety about a new theory)".[21] Resultantly, "Bion regarded the central crime of Oedipus as his insistence on knowing the truth at all costs".[22]
Jacques Lacan[edit]
From the postmodern perspective, Jacques Lacan argued against removing the Oedipus complex from the center of psychosexual developmental experience. He considered "the Oedipus complex — in so far as we continue to recognize it as covering the whole field of our experience with its signification . . . [that] superimposes the kingdom of culture" upon the person, marking his or her introduction to symbolic order.[23]
Thus "a child learns what power independent of itself is as it goes through the Oedipus complex . . . encountering the existence of a symbolic system independent of itself".[24] Moreover, Lacan's proposal that "the ternary relation of the Oedipus complex" liberates the "prisoner of the dual relationship" of the son–mother relationship proved useful to later psychoanalysts;[25] thus, for Bollas, the "achievement" of the Oedipus complex is that the "child comes to understand something about the oddity of possessing one's own mind . . . discovers the multiplicity of points of view".[26] Likewise, for Ronald Britton, "if the link between the parents perceived in love and hate can be tolerated in the child's mind . . . this provides us with a capacity for seeing us in interaction with others, and . . . for reflecting on ourselves, whilst being ourselves".[27] As such, in The Dove that Returns, the Dove that Vanishes (2000), Michael Parsons proposed that such a perspective permits viewing "the Oedipus complex as a life-long developmental challenge . . . [with] new kinds of Oedipal configurations that belong to later life".[28]
In 1920, Sigmund Freud wrote that "with the progress of psychoanalytic studies the importance of the Oedipus complex has become, more and more, clearly evident; its recognition has become the shibboleth that distinguishes the adherents of psychoanalysis from its opponents";[29] thereby it remained a theoretic cornerstone of psychoanalysis until about 1930, when psychoanalysts began investigating the pre-Oedipal son–mother relationship within the theory of psychosexual development.[30][31] Janet Malcolm reports that by the late 20th century, to the object relations psychology "avant-garde, the events of the Oedipal period are pallid and inconsequential, in comparison with the cliff-hanging psychodramas of infancy. . . . For Kohut, as for Winnicott and Balint, the Oedipus complex is an irrelevance in the treatment of severe pathology".[32] Nonetheless, ego psychology continued to maintain that "the Oedipal period — roughly three-and-a-half to six years — is like Lorenz standing in front of the chick, it is the most formative, significant, moulding experience of human life . . . If you take a person's adult life — his love, his work, his hobbies, his ambitions — they all point back to the Oedipus complex".[33]
Certain contemporary psychoanalysts agree with the idea of the Oedipus complex to different degrees; Hans Keller proposed it is so "at least in Western societies";[34] and others consider that ethnologists already have established its temporal and geographic universality.[35] Nonetheless, few psychoanalysts disagree that the "child then entered an Oedipal phase . . . [which] involved an acute awareness of a complicated triangle involving mother, father, and child" and that "both positive and negative Oedipal themes are typically observable in development".[36] Despite evidence of parent–child conflict, the evolutionary psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson note that it is not for sexual possession of the opposite sex-parent; thus, in Homicide (1988), they proposed that the Oedipus complex yields few testable predictions, because they found no evidence of the Oedipus complex in people.[37]
In No More Silly Love Songs: A Realist's Guide to Romance (2010), Anouchka Grose says that "a large number of people, these days believe that Freud's Oedipus complex is defunct . . . 'disproven', or simply found unnecessary, sometime in the last century".[38] Moreover, from the post-modern perspective, Grose contends that "the Oedipus complex isn't really like that. It's more a way of explaining how human beings are socialised . . . learning to deal with disappointment".[38] The elementary understanding being that "You have to stop trying to be everything for your primary career, and get on with being something for the rest of the world".[39] Nonetheless, the open question remains whether or not such a post–Lacanian interpretation "stretches the Oedipus complex to a point where it almost doesn't look like Freud's any more".[38]
Parent-child and sibling-sibling incestuous unions are almost universally forbidden.[40] An explanation for this incest taboo is that rather than instinctual sexual desire, there is instinctual sexual aversion against these unions (See Westermarck effect). Steven Pinker wrote that "The idea that boys want to sleep with their mothers strikes most men as the silliest thing they have ever heard. Obviously, it did not seem so to Freud, who wrote that as a boy he once had an erotic reaction to watching his mother dressing. But Freud had a wet-nurse, and may not have experienced the early intimacy that would have tipped off his perceptual system that Mrs. Freud was his mother."
See also[edit]
- Jocasta complex
- Anti-Oedipus
- Castration anxiety
- Feminism and the Oedipus complex
- Madonna–whore complex
- Polymorphous perversity
- Triad (sociology)
- ^ Charles Rycroft A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London, 2nd Ed. 1995)
- ^ a b Joseph Childers, Gary Hentzi eds. Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
- ^ Peter Gay (1995) Freud: A Life for Our Time
- ^ Oedipus as Evidence: The Theatrical Background to Freud's Oedipus Complex by Richard Armstrong, 1999
- ^ Sigmund Freud The Interpretation of Dreams Chapter V "The Material and Sources of Dreams" (New York: Avon Books) p. 296.
- ^ Bennett Simon, Rachel B. Blass "The development of vicissitudes of Freud's ideas on the Oedipus complex" in The Cambridge Companion to Freud (University of California Press 1991) p.000
- ^ Charles Rycroft A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London, 2nd ed., 1995)
- ^ Allan Bullock, Stephen Trombley The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (London:Harper Collins 1999) pp. 607, 705
- ^ Allan Bullock, Stephen Trombley The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (London:Harper Collins 1999) pp. 205, 107
- ^ Frank Cioffi (2005) "Sigmund Freud" entry The Oxford Guide to Philosophy Oxford University Press:New York pp. 323–324
- ^ Freud, Sigmund (1956). On Sexuality. Penguin Books Ltd.
- ^ "Freud, Sigmund (1856-1939)". credoreference.com. Retrieved 20 March 2015.
- ^ Appignanesisi & Forrester (1992)
- ^ Allan Bullock, Stephen Trombley The New Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought Harper Collins:London (1999) pp. 259, 705
- ^ Murphy, Bruce (1996). Benét's Reader's Encyclopedia Fourth edition, HarperCollins Publishers:New York p. 310
- ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991) Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary Oxford University Press:California pp.177–78
- ^ Hornblower, S., Spawforth, A. (1998) The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization pp. 254–55
- ^ Richard Appignanesi ed. Introducing Melanie Klein (Cambridge 2006) p. 173
- ^ Charles Rycroft A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London, 2nd Edn, 1995)
- ^ Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995)
- ^ Mary Jacobus, The Poetics of Psychoanalysis (London 2005) p. 259
- ^ Michael Parsons The Dove that Returns, the Dove that Vanishes (London 2000) p. 45
- ^ Jacques Lacan, Ecrits: A Selection (London 1997) p. 66
- ^ Ian Parker, Japan in Analysis (Basingstoke 2008) pp. 82–83
- ^ Jacques Lacan, Ecrits pp. 218, 182
- ^ Adam Phillips On Flirtation (London 1994) p. 159
- ^ Ivan Wood On a Darkling Plain: Journey into the Unconscious (Cambridge 2002) "Ronald Britton" entry p. 118
- ^ Michael Parsons The Dove that Returns, the Dove that Vanishes (London 2000) p. 4
- ^ Freud, Sexuality pp. 149-50nn
- ^ Charles Rycroft A Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (London, 2nd Ed., 1995)
- ^ Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995) p. 119
- ^ Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (London 1988) pp. 35, 136
- ^ Janet Malcolm, Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (London 1988), "Aaron Green", pp. 158–59
- ^ Hans Keller: 1975: 1984 Minus 9 (London, 1975)
- ^ Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel and Bela Grunberger Freud or Reich?: Psychoanalysis and Illusion (London, 1986).
- ^ Glen O. Gabbard Long-Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (London 2010) p. 11
- ^ Martin Daly, Margo Wilson Homicide (New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1988).
- ^ a b c Anouchka Grose No More Silly Love Songs (London, 2010) p. 123
- ^ Anouchka Grose No More Silly Love Songs (London, 2010) p. 124
- ^ The Tapestry of Culture An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Ninth Edition, Abraham Rosman, Paula G. Rubel, Maxine Weisgrau, 2009, AltaMira Press, page 101


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Personally until I get word that the stenosis really is a non-issue, he's not even going to appear in the 1st round in many if any of my mocks.
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I'm going to go out on a very shakey limb here... I think the Jets shock the world and try their hand with another USC QB and draft Barkley in the first. Did I just hear a huge snap and am now fallng lol...
Tom Gamble from San Francisco is expected to take the Jets GM position.
That's a good hire. But if Jim Harbaugh rubbed off on him in any way, and/or if Gamble had any say in the choosing of Colin Kaepernick, then Gamble is more likely to make a play for Geno Smith than Matt Barkley. Harbaugh prizes quick feet and athleticism.
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I don't know that it will be necessary to move up for a Geno Smith. He'll fall.
I would love Eifert, but I think we could trade down eight spots and still get him no? That seems very high for Murray and Te'o as well. I like Te'o, but I don't think he's better than Willis who went #9. In fact, if I were a betting man, I'd say he makes it to #12. Isn't Murray more of a 2nd round prospect? A lot can change between now and the draft so he could move up, but that seems like a huge stretch right now.
Question for those more familiar with these prospects and also have a good pulse on what our pressing needs are ; are we better off taking an a TE like Eifert over a pass rusher Barkevious Mingo (in this mock, he slotted 2 picks lower)?
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