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=====Background=====
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is first introduced by [[Freud]] in 1901 and then comes to acquire central importance in [[psychoanalysis|psychoanalytic theory]] thereafter.
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=====Psychosexual Development=====
According to [[Freud]], [[Sophocles]]' play, ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' illustrates a formative stage in each individual's psychosexual development.
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.
=====Unconscious Desire=====
The [[Oedipus complex]] was defined by [[Freud]] as an [[unconscious]] set of loving and hostile [[desire]]s which the [[subject]] experiences in relation to its parents; the [[subject]] [[desire]]s one parent, and thus enters into rivalry with the other parent.
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.
=====Psychopathology=====
[[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".
[[Lacan]] first addresses the [[Oedipus complex]] in his 1938 article on the [[family complexes|family]], where he argues that it is the last and most important of the three "family complexes."
