ABSTRACT
Considering the historical habit of exonerating the male and blaming the female, we can be grateful to Ross for his expanded emphasis on the inordinate ambivalence of the men involved in that 77"quintissential oedpial parable of little Hans. As he does in his paper on the Laius complex of (1982), he reminds us here of the father's seemingly preordained contribution to this inevitable family struggle through generations.
