Explore: Oedipal Complex

childhood." 1909–1914. Proposes that Oedipal desire is the "nuclear complex" of all neuroses; first usage of "Oedipus complex" in 1910. 1914–1918. Considers

considered the feminine Oedipus attitude ("Electra complex") to be more emotionally intense than the Oedipal conflict of a boy, resulting, potentially, in

love with worlds." The "anti-" part of their critique of the Freudian Oedipal complex begins with that original model's articulation of society[clarification

went further, arguing that the child's Oedipal complex was itself triggered by a pre-existing parental complex (Jocasta/Laius). Eric Berne also explored

one alternative explanation for the Madonna–whore complex: This earlier theory is based not on oedipal-based castration anxiety but on man's primary hatred

artists declare the need to "revolt against nature and dissolving the oedipal complex in order to liberate love". Surautomatism Kerr, Greg (2021), "'Brûler

development of an Oedipal complex. Freud's theories, however, characterized no such phase. According to Freud, the Oedipus complex was at the centre of

marginalization, castration, the phallic signifier, the "I/Not I" dichotomy, the Oedipal complex, exile, and other concepts appropriate to feminist criticism and queer

trace of the Oedipal conflict is the superego, the voice of the father within the boy. By thus resolving his incestuous conundrum, (a complex word used to

name the mother rather than the father as the seducer. Hence, the "Oedipal complex" came into fruition. Other feminists who supported Rush's claims are