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The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a term used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to describe the [[unconscious]] [[desire]] of the [[child]] -- especially a male child -- for the parent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility and rivalry with the parent of the same sex.
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a concept used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to describe the [[unconscious]] ([[sexual difference|sexual]]) [[desire]] of the [[child]] -- especially a male child -- for the parent of the opposite sex, and a concomitant sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex.
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a concept used by [[Sigmund Freud]] to refer to the [[unconscious]] ([[sexual difference|sexual]]) [[desire]] of the [[child]] -- especially a male child -- for the parent of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by hostility and rivalry with the parent of the same sex.
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is a term developed by [[Sigmund Freud]] to designate the attraction on the part of the child toward the parent of the opposite sex and rivalry and hostility toward the parent of its own.
=====Background=====
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is first introduced by [[Freud]] in 1901 and then ; it comes to acquire central importance in [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory]]thereafter.
=====''Oedipus Rex''=====
The Oedipus complex is named after the mythical Oedipus, who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother. It comes from the Greek myth of Oedipus, a Greek hero who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. The term derives from ''[[Oedipus]]'' was a prominent figure in Greek mythology who killed his father and married his mother.
[[Freud]] attributes the "gripping power" of [[Sophocles]]' play, ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' to its depiction of what [[Freud]] considers a "universal event in early childhood."
=====Phallic Stage=====
The [[Oedipus complex]] coincides with the [[phallic stage]] of [[development|psychosexual development]], dur
ing which the primary erogenous zone of the body consists of the genital sex organs.
when awareness of and manipulation of the genitals is supposed to be a primary source of pleasure
during which a child becomes interested in his or her own sexual organs
The Oedipus conflict, or Oedipus complex, was described as a state of psychosexual development and awareness first occurring around the age of 5 and a half years (a period known as the phallic stage in Freudian theory).
Freud came to assume that, by the time he has reached the ‘phallic’ stage of development, at around the age of four or five, the small boy is sexually interested in his mother, wishes to gain exclusive possession of her, and therefore harbours hostile impulses towards his father.
=====Psychosexual Development=====
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" was posited by [[Sigmund Freud]] as the central organizing principle of psychosexual development.
rucial stage in the normal developmental process.
The [[Oedipus complex]] emerges in the third year of life and then declines in the fifth year, when the child renounces [[desire|sexual desire]] for its parents and identifies with the rival.
It occurs during the phallic stage of the psycho-sexual development of the personality, approximately years three to five.
=====Unconscious Desire=====
In the "positive" form of the [[Oedipus complex]], the [[desire]]d parent is the parent of the opposite sex to the [[subject]], and the parent of the same sex is the rival.
UNIVERSAL
Followers of the psychologist Sigmund Freud long believed that the Oedipus complex was common to all cultures, although many psychiatrists now refute this belief.
=====Castration Complex=====
The hostility towards the father arouses the fear that the father will remove the offending sex organ of the boy, called [[castration anxiety]].
The [[castration complex]] arises from the boy's assumption that, because girls are without a penis, they must have suffered castration.
The reality of castration is borught home to the boy when he sees the sexual anatomy of the girl, which is lacking the protruding genitals of the male.
The girl appears castrated to the boy. "If that could happen to her, it could also happen to me," is what he thinks.
As a result of castration anxiety, the boy represses his incestuous desire for the mother an his hostility for the father, and the Oedipus complex disappears.
=====Psychopathology=====
The Oedipus complex or conflict is a concept developed by Sigmund Freud to explain the origin of certain neuroses in childhood
[[Freud]] argued that all psychopathological [[structure]]s could be traced to a malfunction in the [[Oedipus complex]], which was thus dubbed "the nuclear complex of the neuroses".
The Oedipus complex is closely connected to the castration complex.
Resolution of the Oedipus complex is believed to occur by identification with the parent of the same sex and by the renunciation of sexual interest in the parent of the opposite sex. Freud considered this complex the cornerstone of the superego and the nucleus of all human relationships.
=====Jacques Lacan=====
