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=====Early Work=====In a letter to [[FLiessFreud]] dated 17 October 1897, Freud remarks that [[Sophocles]]'s play, ''[[Oedipus Rex]]'' has such "gripping power" because being in love with one's [[mother]] and jealous of one's [[father]] is "a universal event in early childhood."<ref>{{F}} 1985''A letter to Fliess''. 17 October 1897.</ref>
The "[[Oedipus complex]]" is first introduced by [[Freud]] in 1901; 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."
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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>
=====''Oedipus Rex''=====
The term was is named after the character [[Oedipus]], a prominent figure in Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex Greek mythology who accidentally kills unwittingly unknowingly killed his father and marries married his mother.
=====Unconscious Desire=====
The [[Oedipus complex]] is a concept used by [[Freud]] to describe the [[unconscious]] ([[sexual difference|sexual]]) [[desire]] of the [[child]] -- especially the [[male]] [[child]] -- for the parent of the opposite sex, and in conjunction with a concomitant sense corresponding attitude of rivalry with and hostility towards 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.
=====Phallic Stage=====
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.
It has been found to be characteristic of a normal individual that he learns to master his Oedipus complex whereas the neurotic subject remains involved in it.
=====Jacques Lacan=====
