TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1994//
TI  - The Kore complex: the myths and some unconscious fantasies
JO  - International journal of psycho-analysis
A1  - Fairfield, S.
SP  - 243
EP  - 263
VL  - 75
IS  - Pt 2
N2  - 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> 
LA  - en
SN  - 0020-7578
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -