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  2. Oedipus complex - Wikipedia

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    The Kleinian psychologists proposed that "underlying the Oedipus complex, as Freud described it ... there is an earlier layer of more primitive relationships with the Oedipal couple". [36] She assigned "dangerous destructive tendencies not just to the father but also to the mother in her discussion of the child's projective fantasies". [37]

  3. Sigmund Freud's views on homosexuality - Wikipedia

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    Dated December 6, 1938, the one-page letter, written in German and signed "Prof. Freud,” is a testament to Freud's commitment to understanding the complexities of human sexuality. In the letter, Freud responded to a question about sexual orientation from a concerned writer, and defended homosexuality. [16]

  4. Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality - Wikipedia

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    Freud sought to link to his theory of the unconscious put forward in The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) and his work on hysteria by positing sexuality as the driving force of both neuroses (through repression) and perversion. In its final version, the "Three Essays" also included the concepts of penis envy, castration anxiety, and the Oedipus ...

  5. Father complex - Wikipedia

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    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. [2]

  6. Feminist views on the Oedipus complex - Wikipedia

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    Feminists have long struggled with Sigmund Freud's classical model of gender and identity development, which centers on the Oedipus complex. Freud's model, which became integral to orthodox psychoanalysis, suggests that because women lack the visible genitals of the male, they feel they are "missing" the most central characteristic necessary ...

  7. Phallic stage - Wikipedia

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    This psychological complex indirectly derives its name from the Greek mythologic character Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and sexually possessed his mother. Initially, Freud applied the Oedipus complex to the development of boys and girls alike; he then developed the female aspect of phallic-stage psychosexual development as the ...

  8. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    According to Freud's many theories of religion, the Oedipus complex is utilized in the understanding and mastery of religious beliefs. In Freud's psychosexual stages, he mentioned the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex and how they affect children and their relationships with their same-sex parental figure. According to Freud, there is an ...

  9. Hamlet and Oedipus - Wikipedia

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    In Freud's wake, Jones explains Hamlet's mysterious procrastination as a consequence of the Oedipus Complex: [3] the son continually postpones the act of revenge because of the impossibly complicated psychodynamic situation in which he finds himself.