25 Facts About Oedipus complex

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Oedipus complex is a concept of psychoanalytic theory.

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Freud rejected the term Electra Oedipus complex, introduced by Carl Jung in 1913, as a proposed equivalent Oedipus complex among young girls.

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Oedipus complex refers to a 5th-century BC Greek mythological character Oedipus complex, who unwittingly kills his father, Laius, and marries his mother, Jocasta.

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Oedipus complex based this on his analysis of his feelings attending the play, his anecdotal observations of neurotic or normal children, and on the fact that Oedipus Rex was effective on both ancient and modern audiences.

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Freud's original examples of the Oedipus complex are applied only to boys or men; he never fully clarified his views on the nature of the complex in girls.

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Oedipus complex begins to desire his mother herself in the sense with which he has recently become acquainted, and to hate his father anew as a rival who stands in the way of this wish; he comes, as we say, under the dominance of the Oedipus complex.

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In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development, when occurs the formation of the libido and the ego; yet it might manifest itself at an earlier age.

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Therefore, the satisfactory parental handling and resolution of the Oedipus complex are most important in developing the male infantile super-ego.

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Therefore, the satisfactory parental handling and resolution of the Electra Oedipus complex are most important in developing the female infantile super-ego, because, by identifying with a parent, the girl internalizes morality; thereby, she chooses to comply with societal rules, rather than reflexively complying in fear of punishment.

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In regard to narcissism, the Oedipus complex is viewed as the pinnacle of the individual's maturational striving for success or for love.

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When Freud proposed that the Oedipus complex was psychologically universal, he provoked the evolution of Freudian psychology and the psychoanalytic treatment method, by collaborators and competitors alike.

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In classical Freudian psychology the super-ego, "the heir to the Oedipus complex", is formed as the infant boy internalizes the familial rules of his father.

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Oedipus complex's proposal was part of the "controversial discussions" at the British Psychoanalytical Association.

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Oedipus complex assigned "dangerous destructive tendencies not just to the father but to the mother in her discussion of the child's projective fantasies".

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In 1920, Sigmund Freud wrote that "with the progress of psychoanalytic studies the importance of the Oedipus complex has become, more and more, clearly evident; its recognition has become the shibboleth that distinguishes the adherents of psychoanalysis from its opponents"; thereby it remained a theoretic cornerstone of psychoanalysis until about 1930, when psychoanalysts began investigating the pre-Oedipal son–mother relationship within the theory of psychosexual development.

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Freud's supposed cure of Sergei Pankejeff, an alleged triumph of the Oedipus complex theory, is regarded as fraudulent by the scientific community and by Pankejeff himself.

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Masson writes that, because the theory of the Oedipus complex became widely popular, psychoanalysts continue to do damage to their patients by doubting the reality of the patient's early memories of trauma.

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Many scholars and psychologists observe that, because the theory of the Oedipus complex assigns distinct roles to a mother and father, it is a poor fit for families that do not use traditional gender roles.

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The Oedipus complex is compromised in the context of modern family structures, as it requires the existence of the notions of masculinity and femininity.

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Eribon criticizes the Oedipus complex described by Freud or Lacan as an "implausible ideological construct" which is an "inferiorization process of homosexuality".

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Oedipus complex assigned "dangerous destructive tendencies not just to the father but to the mother in her discussion of the child's projective fantasies".

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In Esquisse pour une autoanalyse, Pierre Bourdieu argues that the success of the concept of Oedipus complex is inseparable from the prestige associated with ancient Greek culture and the relations of domination that are reinforced in the use of this myth.

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In other words, if Oedipus complex was Bantu or Baoule, his story would probably not be viewed as a human universal.

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Feminist views on the Oedipus complex include criticism of the phallocentrism of the theory by philosopher Luce Irigaray among others.

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Oedipus complex thinks that Freud's desire for a neat, symmetrical theory leads him to a contrived understanding of women as inverse men.

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