"There is no Oedipus complex" is, using your own words, "fashionable nonsense". Of course there is a crucial conflict as we learn rules, and this establishes a

"There is no Oedipus complex" is, using your own words, "fashionable nonsense". Of course there is a crucial conflict as we learn rules, and this establishes a universal foundation of ethics. And of course this takes place in the realm of our very object relations. Not bothering about what a concept actually means and/or describes is not a free card for criticism. (Neither does generalization over an entire section of science and human thinking help particularly.) – Sorry for the harsh words, but this actually bothers me. Regarding charlatans, mind that there are already few who have actually studied this. (I'm one of them.) Regarding Lacan, he provides us with an established theory of "talking machines", and, in a philosophical context, how they relate to our very freedom (or, what freedom may even be). This isn't totally useless in our current situation, and NB, it's actually quite the opposite of fascism.