From the desire to the act. Parricide from objet relations theory

Abstract

Family is part of a permanent social body. Its optimal functioning is the base of a more complex web called society. The act of studying thoroughly to scrutinize about the unconscious desires that leak in the individual in relation with the persons that are part of this first social core allow us to problematize the different displays of violence that arise within the subject according to the theorical-psychoanalytical contributions derivative around the parricide. This article is a thematic review of the concept of parricide according to the psychoanalytical object relations theory, starting from the importance this concept has as a main part of the freudian work in the Oedipus Complex conceptualization, one of the main pillars of classical psychoanalysis.
The position for the desire to kill the father is motivated by a death drive not contained by a good and benevolent object at birth emerge from the object relations theory, which places the subject in a self aggrandizement to counteract the lack of objects since the beginning of the subject’s life. Moreover,
classical psychoanalysis proposes that the desire for parricide is so old that it’s difficult to trace its origins, but it remains valid in every individual’s unconscious fantasy. In this work, the conception of parricide will be discussed according to the Viennese psychoanalysis in order to complete it with the contributions that
emerge from the English psychoanalytic theory