@article{ref1,
title="The Kore complex: the myths and some unconscious fantasies",
journal="International journal of psycho-analysis",
year="1994",
author="Fairfield, S.",
volume="75",
number="Pt 2",
pages="243-263",
abstract="Drawing on ancient legends involving the goddesses Demeter and Kore/Persephone, this study describes highly overdetermined unconscious fantasies associated with the acute anxieties and conflicts of separation-individuation. These fantasies, often aggressive in nature, involve condensation of generational and gender roles, and of oral and genital motifs. It is suggested that the pre-oedipal child of either sex experiences itself as a 'kore' (Greek for 'girl'), that is, as feminine in primary identification with the mother, and that the set of anxieties underlying these fantasies may therefore be called the Kore complex, a developmentally earlier counterpart of the Oedipus complex.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0020-7578",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}