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Post by monica on Nov 28, 2015 11:37:58 GMT
This theory of Freud's is named after the Greek legend where Oedipus unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, triggering a curse upon himself. Freud thought this legend mirrored the developmental phallic stage wherein boys, on becoming aware that they had penises also developed aggressive and jealous attachments to their mothers, seeing their fathers as rivals for their mothers' attention. The equivalent stage in girls is called the Electra complex.
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Post by eccentric on Dec 1, 2015 19:44:33 GMT
The Oedipus complex according to Freud happens the phallic phase from about the age of 3 to 5. The child realises that whatever path he takes it will result in castration. If he tries to threaten his father he will be defeated because his father is stronger and can satisfy his mother in ways that a small child cannot. Putting himself in his mother's place would emasculate him so the only course is to reject Oedipal attachments and enter the latency period, which lasts until puberty. Freud argued that the Oedipus complex is present in everyone; those raised by adoptive parents experience it just as strongly as children brought up by their natural parents. It is supposedly not tied to biology but to the importance of parental figures. The complex became one of the most important aspects of Freudian theory. I think that there is something in Freud's theory in that there can be a competitive relationship between a child and a parent of the same sex, however in my opinion Freud is wrong about the age at which this happens I would say that it develops around 8-10 years, when hormones start to be released and strengthens as puberty sets in.
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