Abstract
This article aims to present a theoretical study about the transformation of the concept of the Oedipus complex, main organizer of the psychic life of human beings. This reflection will demonstrate how the construct may be suffering distinct influences, such as socio-cultural changes, since modernity and, consequently, changes the forms of family organization. To this end, recent articles were used in order to bring new considerations of possible reformulations of the Oedipus complex. Later in this article, contributions of Kaës work were used to expand our reflections about the topic. Contemporaneity faces an absence of authorities and rules, which summons individuals to build their own references and draw up their own rules. In this new configuration, the authority is no longer represented by the image of the father, which can result in weakness and interferes with a psychic organization around the Oedipus complex and around the superego formation, leading to upwelling poor defense mechanisms in symbolization capabilities.
Oedipus Complex; Superego; Contemporaneity; Family