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Oedipus describes the riddle of the Sphinx by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, c. 1805. In classical psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus complex (also spelled Œdipus complex) refers to a son's sexual attitude towards his mother and concomitant hostility toward his father, first formed during the phallic stage of psychosexual development.
In the phallic stage of psychosexual development, a boy's decisive experience is the Oedipus complex describing his son–father competition for sexual possession of his mother. This psychological complex indirectly derives its name from the Greek mythologic character Oedipus , who unwittingly killed his father and sexually possessed his mother.
Sigmund Freud, and psychoanalysts after him, saw the father complex, and in particular ambivalent feelings for the father on the part of the male child, as an aspect of the Oedipus complex. [1] By contrast, Carl Jung took the view that both males and females could have a father complex, which in turn might be either positive or negative.
The family romance is a psychological complex identified by Sigmund Freud in an essay he wrote in 1909 entitled "The Family Romances." In it he describes various phases a child experiences as he or she must confront the fact that the parents are not wholly emotionally available.
Peter Gay critically examines the theories of Sigmund Freud, particularly his views on the emotional tie between a mother and her son. Gay argues that Freud's observation that the relation of mother to son is the only lasting intimate relationship that does not conceal sediment of hostile feelings is sentimentalized and not supported by ...
80 Mother and Son Quotes. 1. “There has never been, nor will there ever be, anything quite so special as the love between the mother and a son.” ... — Sigmund Freud. 13. “More than mother ...
Some feminists criticize Freud's psychosexual development theory as being sexist and phallocentric, [22] arguing that it was overly informed by his own self-analysis. In response to the Freudian concept of penis envy in the development of the feminine Oedipus complex, the German Neo-Freudian psychoanalyst Karen Horney , counter-proposed that ...
In his late theory on the feminine, Freud recognized the early and long lasting libidinal attachment of the daughter to the mother during the pre-oedipal stages. Feminist psychoanalysts have confronted these ideas (particularly the female relationship to the real, imaginary and symbolic phallus) and reached different conclusions. Some generally ...