2006-06-06 04:17:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Remember the Oedipus Complex is basically a conflict during the phallic stage of psychosexual development. The child has a desire for his mother and wants to posess her; in this case the father is his rival in getting to his mother. Another aspect of this complex is castration anxiety where the child fears that for having these desires for his mother, his father will retaliate by castrating him. For girls its the Electra Complex where their object of affection is their father
2006-06-06 08:54:58 · answer #1 · answered by shadowkitty 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OEDIPUS COMPLEX: For Freud, the childhood desire to sleep with the mother and to kill the father. Freud describes the source of this complex in his Introductory Lectures (Twenty-First Lecture): "You all know the Greek legend of King Oedipus, who was destined by fate to kill his father and take his mother to wife, who did everything possible to escape the oracle's decree and punished himself by blinding when he learned that he had none the less unwittingly committed both these crimes" (16.330). According to Freud, Sophocles' play, Oedipus Rex, illustrates a formative stage in each individual's psychosexual development, when the young child transfers his love object from the breast (the oral phase) to the mother. At this time, the child desires the mother and resents (even secretly desires the murder) of the father. (The Oedipus complex is closely connected to the castration complex.) Such primal desires are, of course, quickly repressed but, even among the mentally sane, they will arise again in dreams or in literature. Among those individuals who do not progress properly into the genital phase, the Oedipus Complex, according to Freud, can still be playing out its psychdrama in various displaced, abnormal, and/or exaggerated ways.
2006-06-08 00:52:50 · answer #2 · answered by shepardj2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The second answerer was on the right track, but wrong.
The Oedipus Complex is a Freudian concept that basically says a son unconsciously resents his father for having sexual access to his mother.
It's a load of crap, obviously (not to say that there haven't BEEN cases of this sort of thing in the past - Freud was saying it was commonplace and natural).
Freud was mostly a nutbar, but his work on the unconscious mind saved what dignity he had left.
2006-06-06 12:08:13 · answer #3 · answered by jeff_hammersmark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
basically, it's when a son is in love with his mum (and a daughter with her dad. Don't know if this one has another name, though). All children go through this phase, then get over it. Usually, they tend to show less affection for the parent of the same sex, or at elast show more affection for the one of the opposite sex.
You know, when kids tell their mum they want to marry them...
2006-06-06 11:21:17 · answer #4 · answered by Offkey 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
profit scared the parents into sending him away. later he came back and fell in love with mom only to find out later she was his mom. good greek story dry read but worth it i gave you a very short version
2006-06-06 11:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was in love with his mother, wasn't he?
2006-06-06 11:20:23 · answer #6 · answered by Points whore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you wanna f*ck your mom and kill your dad.
2006-06-07 12:11:37 · answer #7 · answered by marcus_aurelius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋