Interpretation of Murder.

Your book is terrific! I wish you much success with your future in writing, by all accounts it should be bright!

Echoing a previous post, I have been in analysis for several years and found the insights in the book to be excellent. However, Younger's reinterpretation of the Oedipal complex didn't work for me because the reversal of the father-son Oedipal hostility would make it impossible for the son to resolve his castration anxiety since the source of the anxiety would be inside his actual father, unless of course, the son killed the actual father and ended the projection. I am certain I have resolved cases of castration anxiety through analysis, and yet my actual father still lives (though I'm sure he claims I'm simply killing him slowly by becoming an artist).

As you likely get dozens of questions everyday on psychoanalytic points such as this, I won't elaborate further. My words would be better spent congratulating you once again on a brilliant and entertaining novel and sending best wishes for your success!