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==Sigmund Freud==
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is considered by [[Freud]] as one of the "cornerstones" of [[psychoanalysis]].<ref>{{F}} (1923a) "[[Sigmund Freud:Bibliography|Two Encyclopaedia Articles]]", [[SE]], Vol. 18, p. 247.</ref> [[Freud]]'s conception of the [[Oedipus complex]] is probably one of the most popularized and at the same time one of the most misunderstood ideas of [[psychoanalysis]].
The term is named after the [[Oedipus]], a prominent figure in Greek mythology who unwittingly unknowingly killed his father and married his mother. Taking his cue from the ancient Greek tragedy by [[Sophocles]], [[Oedipus Rex]], where [[Oedipus]] unwittingly kills his [[father]] and becomes king by marrying his [[mother]], [[Freud]] suggested that our deepest [[unconscious]] [[desire]] is to murder our [[father]] and marry our [[mother]]. The [[Oedipus complex]] is rather more complicated than this, though, and represents [[Freud]]'s conception attempt to map the [[ambivalent]], both [[love|loving]] and hostile, feelings that the [[child]] has towards its parents. In its positive form the complex manifests itself as the desire for the death of a rival, the parent of the same sex, accompanied by the sexual desire for the parent of the Oedipus opposite sex. In its negative form the complex is probably one works in reverse, as the desire for the parent of the most popularized same sex and at a hatred towards the same time one parent of the most misunderstood ideas opposite sex. In actual fact, a so-called 'normal' Oedipus complex consists of psychoanalysisboth positive and negative forms. What is important about the Oedipus complex is how the child learns to negotiate and resolve its ambivalent feelings towards its parents.
Most controversially, Freud insisted that the Oedipus complex was a universal, trans-historical and trans-cultural phenomenon: