’e Intersubjective Nature of the Oedipal Phase and the Post-Oedipal Object /

It was one of psychoanalysis’ major achievements to have made the study of human sexuality a focus of scienti•c attention, indeed, to speak of it at all. In particular, the discovery of infantile sexuality and incestuous wishes represented brave and taboo-breaking innovations in our attempts to approach the mysteries of the timeless topics of love and passion.