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One of the cornerstones of the theory of [[psychoanalysis]], the idea of the [[Oedipus complex]] derives from the Greek legend that tells how [[Oedipus]] unwittingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta.
a gay may beieve that she has been castrated by a jealous mother who resents her sexual feelings for her father, whislt theboy fears that he might be castrated by a jealous father.
as he comes both toa to a ccept the reality of that threat and to identify with the father, the idssolution fo her
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A succesful negotiation of the Oedipal triangle is a preconditionfor entry into the human symbolic order.
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