Abstract Traditional psychoanalytic literature tends to present issues of separation as a two-person dilemma. Current understanding, however, seems to challenge that view. The recent realization that there is no such thing as a baby, but only a mother-and-baby unit, has opened the way to the further understanding that there is no such thing as a mother-and-baby unit extra-context. In other words, there is always a father in the background – be he real or phantasized. Separation, therefore, cannot but be conceptualized as involving a triangle. It should never be forgotten that Oedipus’s own life history starts with a separation initiated by a father and acquiesced with by a mother. The aim of this paper is to present some thoughts on the Oedipal (i.e., triangular) dimension of separation.

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三角分离

摘要 传统的精神分析文献倾向于将分离问题呈现为两个人的困境。然而，目前的理解似乎挑战了这一观点。最近认识到没有婴儿这样的东西，而只有母婴单元，这为进一步理解不存在母婴单元额外上下文开辟了道路。换句话说，背景中总是有一个父亲——无论他是真实的还是幻想的。因此，分离只能被概念化为涉及一个三角形。永远不要忘记，俄狄浦斯自己的人生历程始于父亲发起、母亲默许的分离。本文的目的是提出一些关于俄狄浦斯（即三角形）分离维度的想法。